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Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 21, 2010 18:41 UTC (Thu) by daniel (guest, #3181)
In reply to: Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com) by neilbrown
Parent article: Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

Hi Neil,

I wonder if the time is right for someone to demonstrate an extended IPv4 stack that skips some of the transitional issues of IPv6 and modestly fails to fancy itself so innately pure and beautiful as to compel all ordinary internet denizens to sail away with it, leaving the bulk of the .com domain stranded on the IPv4 island?

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Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 21, 2010 20:53 UTC (Thu) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198) [Link] (1 responses)

IPv6 is the minimal amount of transition cost that is going to exist.

Level Up to IPv6 with Ubuntu 10.10 on Comcast (Linux.com)

Posted Oct 22, 2010 10:39 UTC (Fri) by tialaramex (subscriber, #21167) [Link]

You won't convince them of this. It's like the Unicode transition. For years after it was a done deal there were still people turning up saying "This is too complicated, I don't understand it, therefore obviously something much simpler would be better, let's start tomorrow".

Even today I come across software which doesn't want to actually do Unicode, developers convinced that if they just wait a little while longer it'll turn out that there every other writing system is just Latin but with different squiggles after all...