At 19:15 08/03/2011, Fred Baker wrote:
As we run out of IPv4 address space, businesses that depend on periodic allocations of new address space have been taking pretty strong steps to deploy IPv6.
Correct. But we ran short of IID (IDv6 in a multitechnology context) a very ago, what led to http.1.1.
Would the users have been taught about IDv6 first and IPv6 in continuation, the network would be IPv6 for a long. If I am correct 64 bits corresponds to 13 alphadecimals. Deciding that IPv6 and IDv6/IID had to be written in hexa by engineers and not in names by marketers was the kill of any user IPv6 demand. By simple lack of awareness. IID/IDv6 has nothing to specifically with the IPv6 protocol. Most of the Web sites use shorter than 13 alphadecimal sub-hosts names, hence are IDv6 but ignoring it. Too bad. When I converted the international network to X.121 in the 80s. we used numeric names under Tymnet protocol and converted them at the X.25/75 gateway. The network was much smaller but the number of countries and aithorities over one hundred. The same for private nets. It took less than one year for international and for domestic for two very part-time of us on the issue.
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