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Re: Time to move beyond the 32 bit Internet.

2014-06-24 18:56:07
Mark Andrews wrote:

Martin Rex writes:

Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote:

While going through the Windows API calls and thinking how old fashioned
and lame all those 'Win32' classes look now, a sudden thought:

Ordinary users don't understand the importance of going from IPv4 to IPv6.

But Ordinary users do understand that 32 bits is bad and old and obsolete
and rubbish and 64 bits is better.

Experienced users know painfully well just how smooth and painless
32-bit (windows) and 32-bit IPv4 is, whereas newer 64-bit (windows)
and newer 128-bit IPv6 is just many painful problems and ZERO benefit.

A lot of the equipment that me and my family is using is not IPv6 capable,
and *ALL* Software that I've used so far (Linux, WinXP, Win7) runs
***MUCH*** better when configured with IPv4-only anyway, so why bother.

If someone needs to be pushed, then it is *VENDORS*, not users,
that they ship their equipment in a fashion that it will work with IPv6,
should this ever become available.  Then maybe in 10 years from now,
this might become interesting to end users.

Given there are ISP delivering IPv6 + DS-Lite today over fibre
because they have run out of addresses it is time that *everybody*
starts complaining to every supplier that doesn't ship equipement
/ services with IPv6 enabled by default.


Why would any private individual want to get an IPv6 address?
With DHCP IPv4 + NAT (on your Home router) and even more so with CGN,
you may have at least a vague chance that your ID doesn't stick out
of every IP datagram like a sore thumb.  With IPv6, you're stripped
naked for traffic analysis by every governmental agency worldwide, no matter
how strong you encrypt your traffic.

The end-2-end principle is equivalent to a fairly complete loss of privacy.
Really, I'm glad that I can use IPv4 and get a new IPv4 address assigned
several times a day.

-Martin