That's right today. Another 5 years later you would be singing a different tune. - scalability, better bandwidth management (a.k.a QOS), mobile devices, internet appliances will nail v4 down - UMTS will add some spice to the pot. I agree a user cannot do much unless the ISPs and Org routers/switches deploy v6. But that's not too far away as more sophisticated uses come up.
Incidentally, have you tried running apps like ftp over IPsec or L2TP/PPTP over NAT. Rinka. ----- Original Message ----- From: "J. Noel Chiappa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2001 12:38 AM Subject: RE: Why IPv6 is a must? > > From: TOMSON ERIC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > do you really think that the IETF people (et al.) built IPv6 without a > > preliminary good consideration? > > There are a lot of people in the IETF who think exactly that, actually. > > (This message coming to you via the NAT box I bought in the hole-in-the-wall > computer store in the little strip mall right down the street, here in > Podunksville. Just for grins, I should have asked them if they had any > IPv6... I wonder what the ratio of NAT sales volume is to IPv6, and how > much profit people have made off the former, as opposed to the latter. > Not that I like NAT, I don't.) > > Noel >
