On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 5:20 PM, Gary Mulder <flyingkiwiguy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
People, ISPs, etc. will move to the 128-bit Internet when they're forced to and no sooner. The fact that there is a workable solution to a known problem both proposed and implemented means that the transition will be less painful that it would be if there was no alternative and people are forced to "go digital or else".
Actually IPv6 is a 64 bit Internet, not 128 bits.
Only 64 bits of an IPv6 address are routable. It is the Inter-network after all. Another 64 bits are reserved for the local network. One of the biggest changes since the ARPANET days is that sites typically have local networks with tens of machines. This house has 64 IPv4 addresses with static DHCP allocations and I expect that to grow by at least an order of magnitude.
So we are really going from a 32 bit Internetwork+Network routing space to 64 bits of Internet and 64 bits of Network.