Small mixup...

Posted Jan 26, 2011 15:13 UTC (Wed) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Small mixup... by khim
Parent article: LCA: Vint Cerf on re-engineering the Internet

Aha. And they will buy my IPv6 router? Configure my AAAA records? Setup my IPv6 firewall? Reconfigure all my services? Ditto at my employer that has this multiplied by the factor of at least a 1000?

Please. This plan is an utter disaster. If it was any good, nobody would have to touch a thing.

You know, kinda like this: when I send texts from my mobile, I couldn't care less whether 3G or GSM is used. A phone I purchased almost 4 years ago could do both automagically.

Small mixup...

Posted Jan 27, 2011 12:30 UTC (Thu) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]

> when I send texts from my mobile, I couldn't care less whether 3G or GSM is used. A phone I purchased almost 4 years ago could do both automagically.

Yes, the same way you can use IPv4 on top of either wired ethernet (802.3) or wireless (802.11). A laptop purchased more than 4 years ago could do both automagically.

What we are talking about is more like changing the phone number format or the SMS packet format, not switching between technologies lower in the stack (3G/GSM and 802.3/802.11 are all link-level), so your analogy is a red herring. Changing the link (which affects only that link) is a local decision, and thus much easier than changing a higher-level protocol (which affects everyone).