On 8/31/05, Bill Marquette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No guarantees it'll make the next release. We've got a lot of > infrastructure to fix up post 1.x and rule management for IPv6 just makes me > shudder. My bet is real IPv6 support will slip until 3.0 (w/out someone > coming on board specifically to implement it prior). No timelines on 2.x > either, with the amount of stuff we put into the 1.0 release, we'll likely > target 2.x to be a "retool all the stuff we didn't like in 1.0" release ;) >
Yeah, I'd be surprised if we see IPv6 support before 2007, really. That's a LOT of work and even though US Federal government networks are mandated IPv6 by 2008 (even that's only at the core), don't expect the rest of the world to be using it by then. Some limited parts of the world, maybe. I don't anticipate seeing any widespread IPv6 use on the Internet until at least 2010-2015, and I'm probably being optimistic at that. Too much change and too many devices out there that don't support it. -cmb
