I'm glad you brought that up. :-) As a follow-up to the two posts that I made earlier about Congressional hearings and the OMB mandate, let me applaud Congressman Tom Davis (did I really just say that?!?) for making a salient point during the hearings yesteday: "Asian countries have been aggressive in adopting IPv6 technology, because Asia controls only about 9 percent of the allocated IPv4 addresses and yet has more than half of the world's population," Congressman Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.), chairman of the Committee on Government Reform, said at the hearings. Davis noted that Asian governments have invested hundreds of millions of dollars in IPv6 technology, which vastly opens up the number of Internet addresses over the current IPv4 technology. Among the additional advantages of IPv6 are improved security measures and additional links for wireless devices. ref: http://www.techweb.com/wire/networking/164904243 In addition to Davis' point, I think that it bears to remember that "newer" doesn't mean "better". The Internet is about end-to-end connectivity, not if one version of a particluar set of protocols is "newer" than another. It's all about the connectivity, man. Bear in mind--and as Congressman Tom Davis mentions in the article above--the primary reason that Asia (and to a lesser extent Europe) is primarily interested in IPv6 is that it has a larger pool of available IP host addresses. Virtually all of the "newer" functionality that IPv6 offers has been retro-fitted into IPv4. No, back to your regularly scheduled programming. - ferg -- Mohacsi Janos <mohacsi@niif.hu> wrote:

GOSIP II anybody? Will it be different this time than it was with OSI? Everyone had to scramble in the late 1980s to get OSI stuff done, then the gov't never used it.

Certainly will be different. Lots of network in Asia and Europe already started to use IPv6 in production..... -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg@netzero.net or fergdawg@sbcglobal.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/