One of the benefits of the 16 byte address was to remove the dependence on hierarchy. With the 4 byte address there is partitioning of the address between countries, RIRs, service providers, companies, networks, sites, and finally resolving to a node. By adding to the address space it allows for "mobile" ip addresses. The same ip address at work also works at home regardless of who or what the ISP is. --- Wayne Johnson, | There are two kinds of people: Those 3943 Penn Ave. N. | who say to God, "Thy will be done," Minneapolis, MN 55412-1908 | and those to whom God says, "All right, (612) 522-7003 | then, have it your way." --C.S. Lewis >________________________________ > From: Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> >To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org >Sent: Monday, October 15, 2012 2:15 PM >Subject: Re: [tclug-list] IPv6 > > >Erik Anderson: > >> Absolutely not. >> >> Making a change like this is a *big deal*, both in terms of money (to >> upgrade/replace network infrastructure) as well as in terms of having >> to learn a new technology. As such, it was very wise for the IP >> governing boards to not just make an incremental bump in the IP >> address space, but make a *huge* increase. This decision ensures that >> we won't need to go through this whole process again in the >> foreseeable future. > > >8 bytes is a huge increase. IPv4 has lasted longer than expected >so I can't imagine 8 bytes being exhausted in the future. I read that >16 byte addresses can address more atoms than are thought to exist. >From a practical point of view I think the 16 byte addresses are >a mistake. Systems have to work through all of that before they >can start to do something useful. That's a good reason not to >switch to IPv6. I believe you about IPv6 being an improvement >over IPv4 in a number of ways, but think the length of the addresses >was a mistake. > >I don't think anyone is paying for IPv6 specific upgrades to hardware. >When they upgrade for a practical reason, the hardware they get is >more IPv6 capable than what they had. > > > >Brian Wood >Ebenezer Enterprises >http://webEbenezer.net >(651) 251-9384 > > > > > >_______________________________________________ >TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20121030/818dc581/attachment.html>