Pablo, I work for a large ISP in Belgium and we see the consumption of IP-addresses as we have to addopt the "bogus lists" (list of IP-addresses that are not in use) every time IANA assigns additional blocks to the RIRs (like the RIPE here in Europe). It's very clear: by the end of 2011, the last /8 will be assigned by IANA, and -after that- within roughly a year- this will result in users not having a public v4 address anymore.
NAT (at ISP-level) is not a longterm option as is quite expensive. The result will be probably be that ISPs will have to take special measures like articially reduce the bandwidth for NATted IPv4 to discourage ipv4 and move services to IPv6. So I see all reasons for device-makers to start implementing ipv6 now as it lickly that we will see senarios where radio-stations will offer "additional" content (like high-bitrate streams) in ipv6 only. In fact, from a device point of view, it's not that difficult: - enable ipv6 in the OS (almost all OSses support ipv6 without problems thesedays). - rewrite the code to use ipv6 (usually change some code for DNS namelookups and for opening tcp sockets). - enable the firewall on the device (ipv6 exposes every device to the public internet, so security will move back to the device instead of the NAT-router). BTW. IPv6 does also have some additional advantages for a media-device like the squeezebox: Due to its any-to-any connectivity, it allows applications like peer-to-peer radiostations. In fact, a device like the squeezebox is an ideal device for the applications we expect to see on "the-internet-of-things" (something become possible with ipv6). Cheerio! Kr. Bonne. -- krbonne ------------------------------------------------------------------------ krbonne's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=36003 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=74271 _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list discuss@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/discuss
