IANA runs out of IPV4 addresses in less than a year. The first RIR, which will be APNIC, will run out of IPV4 addresses within 9 months of that time. That gives us a year to a year and a half to ensure that BOINC actually works with IPV6 as the transport.
IPV6 addresses are 4 times as wide as IPV4 addresses, so anyplace that they are stored may have to be widened. We should arrange for a test project that is set up for IPV6 only so that people can test against it. Testers are probably going to have to arrange for tunnels to reach the IPV6 only project for a while as most ISPs do not support IPV6 yet (and apparently have no plans to support IPV6 any time soon). jm7 _______________________________________________ boinc_dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ssl.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/boinc_dev To unsubscribe, visit the above URL and (near bottom of page) enter your email address.
