Moving to IPv6

[ted leslie]

We have been hearing this for years?
As much as i would love this to happen ASAP, I can't help but think its still 4-5 years away?
If it really was going to happen in the near term, wouldn't there be a official announcement, just
like with going to digital tv (in canada/us)? I would have to guess that , once there is a official 
announcement, then there will be a 2-3 year prep period to hit the cut off?

tl

On Wed, 08 Sep 2010 12:25:13 -0400
James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Some of you may have noticed me talking about IPv6 lately.  IPv6 is 
> coming and is necessary, as IPv4 addresses are estimated to reach 
> exhaustion within a year.  Everyone, particularly those managing web 
> sites or business networks, should be making plans to support IPv6 
> ASAP.  I realize that many ISPs do not yet support IPv6, so some method, 
> such as using a tunnel broker, is required while waiting for ISPs to get 
> up to date.  I use gogoNET http://gogonet.gogo6.com.  Another is 
> Hurricane Electric http://he.net and there are others.  In the mean 
> time, call your ISP and ask about when IPv6 will be available.  Then ask 
> them why they're behind the times.  ;-)  Some hosting sites have IPv6 
> available, so all you'd have to do is use it.  DNS servers will require 
> AAAA record support, but BIND has supported that for several years.
> 
> Here's a link to an article about moving to IPv6, with some more links 
> to other articles.
> http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/ipv6/141456
> 
> BTW, for some reason, Seamonkey, on either Linux or Windows, does not 
> like this site.  Firefox and IE work fine.
> 
> On my own network, I use OpenSUSE 11.0 (soon to be updated) on an old 
> computer for my firewall.  I use the tunnel to get a subnet with 2^72 
> addresses and all computers on my network, including my smart phone, get 
> an IPv6 address automagically.  When I'm away from home, I use the 
> client to get a single IPv6 address on my ThinkPad.
> 
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