On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 10:00 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > What do you think of ipv6? I've read that less than 1% > of the traffic on the internet is ipv6 traffic. there really isn't much to think about re: IPv6. it's the way forward unless you have some perverse love for NATs. there's a good chunk of the world that's still not connected to the global internet and they need address space too. europe and asia have exhausted their IPv4 allocations. get crackin' the fact that only 1% of the internet traffic is IPv6 based is a huge improvement from where we were and is largely a function of the technology industry's myopia. 1st mile networks in north america have been very lagged in adding the necessary capabilities and will require in many instances some level of forklift upgrade. folks will have to learn to love the tunnel for a while in some geographies. asian and european networks are considerably further along in much of this already. > What baffles me about ipv6 is why they decided to go > from 4 byte addresses to 16 bytes. Wouldn't 8 byte > addresses make more sense? -- steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.*)