[asterisk-users] RE: OT (a little): IPV6 Ramifications Article

[Tzafrir Cohen]

Hi

To be slightly less off-topic:

On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 05:11:37PM -0400, Dean Collins wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I know it's a little off topic but......Wondering if you can help.
> 
>  
> 
> My wife has been asked to find a writer to produce a story on "The
> dramatic ramifications of IPV6 on commercial businesses and how it will
> change the product designs for ordinary household/commercial use in a
> 5-10 year time frame"
> 
>  
> 
> So her company hired someone who should have been able to deliver the
> goods (ex magazine editor - maybe a little too 'ex'....)
> 
>  
> 
> He has come back with the story angle that is boring (and just plain
> wrong) that says; 
> 
>  
> 
> -          IPV6 is a big cost to companies like the Y2k bug was.
> 
> -          That it will stop spam (hmmm Cringley you have a lot to
> answer for)

Why is that?

> 
> -          That Asia is leading the way but we can ignore it as the USA
> have many many IPV4 addresses to use for the future.
> 

If you have no shortage of IP addresses in the US, then why is it that
when you want to set up a home IP address you have a use a NAT router
(of some sort: be that a device or a software on a computer)? This means 
that peer-to-peer protocols don't Just Work [tm]. 

We all know that SIP is generally broken in the presense of NAT and how 
multimple partial workarounds have been found. 

Any VoIP call between two ANT-ed clients will required a proxy outside
the NAT. Hence more delay and more complicated setup.


And less on-topic:

See if you can find anything interesting under http://laptop.org/ /
http://wiki.laptop.org/ . They use ipv6 as part as their effort to
create a set of computers that are always connected. The mesh networking
infrastructure there is interesting.

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