Jonny Martin wrote:
Wow, a few hours away from the internets, and this thread has run away!
Withdrawl symptoms starting to wear off now I hope? :)
On 18/02/2007, at 12:43 PM, Philip D'Ath wrote:
In a pure IPv6 world where every end point is uniquely addressed we may even be able to change over to using pure transport mode IPSec, since no tunnelling would be required to make it work at all.
Correct - assuming we get to that IPv6 world. And as is evident so far (which is over 10 years), we are still searching for the correct hammer to make sure this happens. And this point can't be argued as if we did have the correct [policy, technical, economic, vista-ical] hammer we would all be sitting here using IPv6 rather than talking about it.
And if we can't find the correct hammer then we better hurry and think through an alternative. A more efficient status quo _is_ a valid alternative.
Windows (an arguable large proportion of the hosts on the Internet) hasn't had IPv6 enabled by default until the release of Vista. Before then it's required obscure cli commands to activate. There doesn't appear to have been much point in doing v6 if a large chunk of your customers couldn't use it. Now they can.