On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Gary Mulder
<flyingkiwiguy(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com>
wrote:
People, ISPs, etc. will move to the 128-bit Internet when they're forced
to and no sooner. The fact that there is a workable solution to a known
problem both proposed and implemented means that the transition will be
less painful that it would be if there was no alternative and people are
forced to "go digital or else".
Actually IPv6 is a 64 bit Internet, not 128 bits.
Only 64 bits of an IPv6 address are routable. It is the Inter-network after
all. Another 64 bits are reserved for the local network. One of the biggest
changes since the ARPANET days is that sites typically have local networks
with tens of machines. This house has 64 IPv4 addresses with static DHCP
allocations and I expect that to grow by at least an order of magnitude.
So we are really going from a 32 bit Internetwork+Network routing space to
64 bits of Internet and 64 bits of Network.