6Bone IPv6 Network Shutting Down Tomorrow

theberf writes "On June 6, 2006 the experimental IPv6 network, the 6bone, will be shut down. All 3FFE:: addresses will revert to the IANA and should no longer be used. All IPv6 traffic should now be using production IPv6 addresses delegated by Regional Internet Registries. The 6Bone has been in operation for 10 years." Here's some more information about "IPv6 day."

Well, it ipv6 has to start somewhere

[the_humeister]

As it stands, there is no real impetus to use ipv6. Hopefully we'll run out of addresses soon and then maybe we'll all switch.

so, is *anyone* outside academia using IPv6?

[poopie]

Seriously.

We've looked at it for internal use, but it's so *different*, there appear to be a bunch of compatibility issues for running a pure IPv6 network and everyone thinks it's weird and counter-intuitive.

I'd really like to see dozens of replies from people using this... because I'd say that IPv6 adoption right now is going about as well as metric system adoption in the US has gone.

If telecoms

[Watson Ladd]

spent as much money on implementing these protocols as lobbying for two-tier networks we would all have IPv6 now.

Privacy Implications of IPv6

[STDOUBT]

I honestly don't understand the hard-on a lot of people seem to have for IPv6. I LIKE NAT. I thinks it's neat. I like the idea that my systems can have un-real IP addresses. IP addresses that can actually change! Wow -cool! When the day comes that each box on my home LAN is required to be perma-identified, I for one, will be royally pissed off.

Re:Sign of the Apocolypse?

[Jugalator]

Why would you drop the leading zero for day and month but not for year?

To make the number become 666. You don't honestly believe he said that for any other reason, do you?

Re:Experimenting with IPv6

[Andy Dodd]

If I recall correctly, supporting IP Multicast was required instead of optional for IPv6 implementations.

If this is the case, a multicast-aware BitTorrent would be THE killer app, IF IPv6 were deployed sufficiently for multicast torrents to be effective.

The way things are now, a multicast torrent would be pretty much the same trafficwise as the way things currently are for the backbone, since for the most part everyone is tunneling to one of a small handful of IPv6 brokers.