Industry agrees - IPv6 transition plan needed
Media Release - 15 December 2008
IPv6 supports a much larger pool of addresses, enough to assign an IP address to each grain of sand in a fine layer covering the entire planet.
Does anyone else get really fed up with this analogy? Given that
addresses aren't used contiguously its a really pointless thing to
say; its more likely to engender thoughts of "why?" rather than "cool,
must have". Better, I think, to say things like "IPv6 will enable
people to easily create a home network environment with your
computers, printers, personal communications devices, home theatre
etc. [ie. auto-configuration], communicate and share with others using
rich media [ie. no NAT] and make it more affordable to create rich
content [ie. multicast, hopefully]... all without needing your ask
your neighborhood geek."
If you really wanted to have a "grains of sand" sort of analogy, it
would be more useful to say something like "IPv6 will have enough
addresses [well, address space] to allow every person [that ever
lived? --- I haven't checked this] a large network of their own."
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Cameron Kerr