Vint Cerf, Google IPv6 Implementors' Conference, Opening Remarks

[pilarrogne]

great video there Vint Cerf'! keep up the good work!

[RackNineInc]

Problem is that, although the costs of moving to the new protocol will be very high, any further delays would push costs even higher.

[xktrvfs]

Time to start moving ! IPv6!

[MalinGenGTEAM1970]

What THIS ? What What ? . YO MAN SPEAK ENGLISH MAN.

[herbg3]

couldn't you assign different sets of 4 billion to each namespace in a software fix?

[theoiper]

With 4 billion IPs per person, perhaps the monstrosity that is NAT will finally die! :-)

[AceTracer]

THE ARCHITECT!

[jd1000x]

Yawn... boring. Get to the point...

[mkimitch]

@jd1000x The point is that if U.S. companies and organizations want to remain competitive and secure, in regards to application and networking abilities, they should start planning and implementing a migration process to IPv6 ASAP. ARIN estimates that we have less than a year (about 343 days) remaining before the U.S. runs out of its allocated IPv4 addresses. I don't think this is the sort of thing where it's good to be a late adopter, especially if you're an ISP or end-user organization.

[echo851]

I have been monitoring this problem for the last 3 years and I agree that we need to take action. Another temporary solution would be to implement IPv6 to the mobile market first (postponing the problem for PC users)... I am quite concerned about the security risks when implementing the IPv6. Hacking unprotected routers and personal PC's is not a hard thing to do. Firewalls and other protections make it harder, but i'm not quite sure what exploitable glitches IPv6 would open up.

[mkimitch]

@echo851 From what I understand, IPv6 has security and mobility built into it, instead of having security and mobility available as extensions (as it is with IPv4). Having the security actually built into the protocol reduces its limitations as well as provides greater scalability. So, if anything, I would think of IPv6 as being more secure than IPv4 (in theory).