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[ NNSquad ] NYTimes: Drumming Up More Internet Addresses + my comments
NYTimes: Drumming Up More Internet Addresses + my comments
http://j.mp/f70rg2 (New York Times)
"It was 1977," Mr. Cerf said, in an interview last week. "We
thought we were doing an experiment. The problem was, the
experiment never ended."
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Overall, it seems to me that this article takes a somewhat overly
optimistic tone. I'm particularly concerned by quotes like:
"Most Internet users have no idea they're using IPv4 today and if
things go well they will have no idea they're using IPv6 in the
future." - Leo Vegoda of ICANN
This kind of statement may be technically true, if we assume that
"most" Internet users use the Net mostly or totally for Web browsing.
For anyone beyond that level, there may be a "world of hurt" when
trying to deal with their ISPs, many of whom are considering interim
"solutions" like "ISP-level NAT" that could have drastic negative
implications for large numbers of applications (some of which various
ISPs would like to kill off anyway, as it happens).
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org
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