On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:11 -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”
Ordinary household equipment Fridge (sending snmp traps if a dork leaves the door open ;) radio/tv/vcr (obviously) central heating system airco security > > 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. afaik, all modern equipment supports v6 > > That it will stop spam (hmmm Cringley you have a lot to answer for) (some people probably wont't get it working, so they will be off the Net ;) > > - That Asia is leading the way but we can ignore it as the USA > have many many IPV4 addresses to use for the future. (sleep well) > > > > > So now my wife has egg on her face and her boss thinks that IPV6 is of > no interest to anyone in their customers companies, apart from the CIO > who needs to implement it, when I’m telling her that there are > dramatic applications; eg. > > > > - That Ford needs to consider how your car having an IP > addresses changes the way they should be building cars (oh and the > streetlights have one as well). > > - That Sharp needs to consider what your TV having an IP > address means (and your set top box and your front door bell as well) > > - That Verizon needs to consider what every mobile phone > having an IP address means (and your desk phone and your office phone) > > - That Chase needs to consider what IPV6 means to your wallet, > the ATM and the POS cash registers. > I don't think that for john doe much will change (v4 => v6) All unices support v6, and even vista has it (unlike previous products, IPv6 is ON by default and can not be turned off ;) In the good old days, everybody got a fixed ip by default, and some euro's extra you got four or eight addrresses. Now you are lucky to get one fixed address. Natting is very nice, but you're out-of-luck when dealing with multiple ssl-sites (forward/backward name-resolving breaks it) All those troubles are over with v6 Best part however, is the build-in support for vpn, native encryption. And QoS, which seems to be very nice for seperation voip-traffic from torrent-traffic. The only obstacles currently, are the ISP's. afaik, all dsl-modems currently can only work with v4. (correct me if i'm wrong) Only option currently is: tunnelbroker.net Perhaps if we actually get directly fibre or ethernet to our home, ipv6 will get mainstream. hw (Well, if * would support it, without any extra patches, would help) -- pgp-id: 926EBB12 pgp-fingerprint: BE97 1CBF FAC4 236C 4A73 F76E EDFC D032 926E BB12 Registered linux user: 75761 (http://counter.li.org) _______________________________________________ --Bandwidth and Colocation provided by Easynews.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
