Comments on: IPv6 to the rescue – eh?

By: The new network dogma: Has the wheel turned full circle? «

The new network dogma: Has the wheel turned full circle? « — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 15:46:56 +0000

[...] The spider’s web of protocols that need to perform flawlessly in unison to provide a good user experience is undoubtedly getting more and more complex as time goes by. There is only little effort to simply things and there is a view that it is all becoming too over-engineered. Even if a new standard has been ratified and is recommended for use, this does not mean it will be implemented in live networks on a wide scale basis. The protocol that heads the list of under exploited protocols is IPv6 (IPv6 to the rescue – eh?). [...]

By: Do you know your ENUM? «

Do you know your ENUM? « — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:07:25 +0000

[...] PSTN or mobile networks. IP networks use an IP addresses as dictated by the IPv4 standard ( IPv6 to the rescue – eh? ) while public telephone networks use the E.164 standard as maintained by the ITU in Geneva. So if [...]

By: John Curran

John Curran — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:44:18 +0000

The inevitable depletion of IPv4 address space will result in a difficult situation for those ISP’s who wish to continue to grow. This, in turn, will result in ISP’s connecting new clients via IPv6, and existing sites being pressured to run IPv6 if they want their content available to “the entire Internet”.

This has been recently put in focus by revised forecasts for IPv4 availability which point to an issue as soon as 2010 for the Internet community.