IPv6

Envisioning a new Internet architecture

The Pouzin Society is a new group being created to rethink the notion of a global online network; “the Internet.” The early material suggests that the body is already thinking of concepts that seem to elevate the Internet from a transport/connection network to a host for complex inter-process communication that sounds more like cloud computing, or an underlying framework for it at least.

This is a topic that’s going to generate a lot of discussion and interest, but remember that we still haven’t even been able to transition to IPv6 from IPv4 after more than a decade of work.

Sprint readies for IPv6, federal mandate or not

The Federal government agency mandate to run IPv6 by the summer of 2008 is now approaching, and Sprint at least is planning to be ready in case the government actually goes through with what it has mandates, far from a sure thing. IPv6 is a new version of IP that has considerably more address space, enough to address all the devices on the Internet and PSTN with room to spare. The problem is that it requires changes in the network and user equipment to use. It is expected that it will roll out commercially in a gradual way, and that IPv6 may not be really used universally on the Internet for a decade.