Re: [IP] China Builds a Better Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <suresh@hserus.net>
Subject: Re: [IP] China Builds a Better Internet
Date: 22nd September 2006
Time: 4:28:25 pm

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• From: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@hserus.net>
• To: dave@farber.net
• Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 19:51:52 +0530

David Farber wrote:

>> From: Dewayne Hendricks <dewayne@warpspeed.com>
>> 
>> China Builds a Better Internet
>> 
>> Americans have been hogging Internet addresses for decades, leaving
>> late-comers like China to divvy up the few remaining slivers. But China
>> is fighting back by vaulting to an addressing standard that could
>> rewrite the rules of the Internet—and business innovation—for decades to
>> come.

I do wish people would stop propagating that "MIT has more IP addresses
than all of china" meme.

CNGI is not new and neither is ipv6.

ipv6.net.cn was registered in 2000, ipv6.org in 1998 and ipv6 itself
dates back to 1994 or so.

However all the ideas about "an internet of devices" where every single
toaster, microwave and garage door will have an IPv6 stack built into it
is decades off .. they'll probably want to try the idea of making
everything olympics related v6 enabled after a fashion though

In fact, funnily enough, v6 hasn't exactly caught on - even with v6 IP
space around and available for the asking.  Ask your ISP for it, lots of
ISPs offer it - or get it from a tunnel provider like sixxs.net or
tunnelbroker.net .. or if you need a rather larger block of v6 addresses
<- though a /48 has a huge number of IPs all by itself - ask APNIC,
RIPE, ARIN etc - you'll get it. Without much trouble at all.

But does hotmail, or yahoo, have a v6 address?  Do their chinese
equivalents like (say) sina.com, have v6 addresses?  Though v6 is -
again - available for the asking, and just about every modern operating
system from Windows XP on, has a ipv6 stack?

I'll leave you to draw more conclusions than the reporter will have
drawn after listening to "next generation networking" hype after a great
dinner of peking duck and sweet and sour pork and then typing out the
article with a healthy amount of copy and paste from dozens of similar
articles in mass media over the last few years.

	srs

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