On May 16, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: > On 05/14/2011 07:39 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: >> Jim Gettys<j...@freedesktop.org> writes: >> >>> ... we have to get naming squared away. Typing IPv6 addresses is for the >>> birds, and having everyone have to go fuss with a DNS provider isn't a >>> viable solution. >> perhaps i'm too close to the problem because that solution looks quite >> viable to me. dns providers who don't keep up with the market (which means >> ipv6 and dnssec in this context) will lose business to those who do. > I don't believe it is currently viable for any but the hackers out there, > given my experience during the Comcast IPv6 trial. Typing V6 addresses (much > less remembering them) is a PITA. > > You are asking people who don't even know DNS exists, to bother to establish > another business relationship (or maybe DNS services might someday be > provided by their ISP). > > If you get past that hurdle they get to type long IPv6 addresses into a web > page they won't remember where it was the year before when they did this the > last time to add a machine to their DNS. > > The way this "ought" to work for clueless home users (or cluefull users too, > for that matter) is that, when a new machine appears on a network, it "just > works", by which I mean that a globally routeable IPv6 address appears in DNS > without fussing around using the name that was given to the machine when it > was first booted, and that a home user's names are accessible via secondaries > even if they are off line. And NXDOMAIN should work the way it was intended, > for all the reasons you know better than I. > > This is entirely possible ;-). Just go ask Evan Hunt what he's been up to > with Dave Taht recently.... > - Jim > > > Right now, IPv6 is worse than IPv4 for home users; we need
How so? It's not like you can even reach anything at home now, let alone reach it by name. Owen
