Archive for the ‘IPv6’ Category.
13th November 2008, 10:02 am
I’m heading off to the Australian IPv6 summit next week. See http://www.ipv6.org.au/summit/index.php
I spent quite a bit of time in the past 10 years working with the IPv6 people worldwide. I ran the 6BONE IPv6 testing backbone for the Australian region, did work on IPv6 tunneling on demand gateways, designed protocols for TCP connection survivability on network topology changes, and developed bump-in-the-stack designs for IPv6 TCP/IP protocol stacks in Trumpet Winsock.
I gave it a rest over the past 5 years or so as it seemed that the developed world has a rather short sighted attitude to IPv6. I’m heading off to this conference so that I can again touch base with people and catch up with the latest developments. Finally the IPv4 addresses are running out (predicted around 2010 +/- 1 year) so it would seem that now the pressure is on.
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26th September 2007, 10:00 pm
While Global Warming is certainly something to be concerned about, with icecaps on Greenland melting and all that, it’s probably a little known fact that the Internet is heading for its own meltdown of sorts. If you don’t believe me, take a look at this… http://www.tndh.net/~tony/ietf/IPv4%20Address%20Fractal%20Map.pdf From what we are led to believe, the availablility of IPv4 internet addresses is rapidly drying up. Latest predictions show that sometime around 2010, there aren’t going to be any more IPv4 addresses – well, certainly not as freely available as they currently are.
Just as an aside… I’ve been aware that things might break in the past 10 years or so when I built IPv6 into Trumpet Winsock 5.0. My latest TCP stack for DOS (nothing to do with Trumpet) also has IPv6 and as far as I’m aware, it’s one of the few IPv6 DOS TCP implementations around. Ok, ok. it doesn’t do full IPsec and so forth (remember it’s only 640K in DOS), but it has the basic connectivity required to get going. Anyone who wants to try out a beta, let me know…
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