On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 09:55:15PM -0400, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre wrote: > That said, that's one of the things I will be focusing on at UDS; > along with a blueprint I have yet to write regarding upgrades to the > networking stack in general.
On that note, I'd like us to look at what we need to do to support IPv6 properly. IPv4 exhaustion has been "real soon now" for at least a decade, but we really are getting alarmingly close. The IPv4 Address Report at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html currently predicts regional Internet registry exhaustion in January 2012. As a Wikipedia editor puts it (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion#Exhaustion_date): "The time remaining until the first RIR exhaustion is a short time for the entire industry to transition to IPv6. This situation is aggravated by the likelihood that until exhaustion there will be no significant demand for IPv6." I know that we're pretty close, and that it's perfectly possible to run IPv6-capable systems on Ubuntu. However, I'm not convinced that this is really consumer-ready yet. Every time anyone breathes on glibc's IPv6 support we seem to have a rash of people recommending blacklisting the ipv6 module or other similar hacks to get around one problem or another, and there are all kinds of other niggling bugs. We need a plan to make sure we aren't caught on the hop when ISPs start handing out IPv6 addresses by default. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
