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"Why IPv6"

Posted by: Anonymous Coward on November 10, 2006 02:49 AM
Joe needs to get out more. IPv6 is live and well in both research and production networks:

<a href="http://news.com.com/China+launches+largest+IPv6+network/2100-1025_3-5506914.html" title="com.com">http://news.com.com/China+launches+largest+IPv6+n<nobr>e<wbr></nobr> twork/2100-1025_3-5506914.html</a com.com>
<a href="http://www.verio.com/about/newsroom/articles/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&Year=05&id=70891118670304" title="verio.com">http://www.verio.com/about/newsroom/articles/inde<nobr>x<wbr></nobr> .cfm?fuseaction=article&Year=05&id=70891118670304</a verio.com>

and especially this:
<a href="http://mailman.twdx.net/public/occaid/2005-October/002013.html" title="twdx.net">http://mailman.twdx.net/public/occaid/2005-Octobe<nobr>r<wbr></nobr> /002013.html</a twdx.net>

And let's not forget the wireless carriers: how else do you support a billion IP-enabled phones?

Of course, here in the US, it seems only MCI is actually doing anything on the wireline carrier side. The DoD is moving ahead (slowly - no real production nets yet), and the hardware and OS vendors are making great progress. I'd hate to see the US end up in an Internet backwater in the future...

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