On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 04:18:30PM +0100, Morgan Dollard wrote:
I disagree, IPv6 is already significantly being deployed in the Inernet2. So far though that is only used by University and research orgs, kinda like Arpanet was in teh begining. Significant new applications are being deployed for it specifically, and great innovations are taking place. Eventually, that will replace the Internet as we know it today, and IPv6 will be implemented, unless someone comes up with anything better, which isnt that unlikely.
The Internet as we know it took 30 years to come to everybody, and it was providing something that essentially wasn't provided before. Internet2 provides the same thing, only faster; so why do we believe it will replace the existing solution *EVER*, much less in a shorter time frame than 30 years? The Internet is going to be with us for a very long time. Emphasis should be on fixing it, not replacing it.