Headline on the original article: What to Do About the Scarcity of IPv4 Addresses
Headline on the Slashdot post: Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption

Well-played.

> First I will not say which "side" I am on as that is unimportant as my total climate knowledge is based on grumbling about weather.

Yet, that's the very first thing you did: tell us which "side" you are on. Well played.

Yes, but it's only a very superficial one. Scratch the surface just a bit, and you'll find the same reactionary impulse driving both of them.

TCP port 443 is the new waist of the Internet, and it doesn't look like that's going to change with the transition to IPv6 either. Should we just forget about concurrent multi-path and multi-streaming at the transport layer and do it all at the application layer? Or do you think there might still be room for fixing these problems at the transport layer?

Ssh. You'll wake the baby.

We are old.

We're talking about an attack that only currently originates from a user population representing less than 0.3% of the Internet user population. If you're under attack over IPv6, then just pull the plug. Seriously, I get that you need to keep your family jewels in a bank vault. You can probably keep the rhinestones under the bed and save on the safe deposit fees.

Turns out for external facing web services, you don't need any of that. You just rack up an IPv6 load-balanced proxy and point it at your existing IPv4 servers. The trick is making sure you don't shoot yourself by implementing a stupid per-source address limit and kill your site over IPv6 because all the IPv4 source addresses are the for the proxy array.

This may be so. But...

There are a *LOT* of big-time commercial orgs that make use of government funded weather sats. Maybe it's time that some of the Big Money Bags that make bank off of publicly funded things like the National Weather Service started ponying up a little cash-ola?

Most of the IPv4 stuff that ISPs are already using today was either never designed for the NAT444 subscriber model, or if it was, then it's badly broken and not as well engineered as the comparatively older and better designed IPv6 stuff. This is especially apparent when you're looking at service providers with more than 16 million subscribers, who need to number subscribers in multiple separate address realms. This is the main problem cited to me by operators who have rejected NAT444 in favor of IPv6 DS/DS-lite.

For evidence, I don't have much to point out except the fact that every major ISP in the United States and Europe, and many in Asia as well, having looked at the operational considerations associated with the NAT444 and IPv6 DS/DS-lite alternatives, now seems to have concluded that the latter is superior to the former. Admittedly, I have nothing but anecdotes to relay if you want help explaining their observed behavior.

As for making GoldenShield workalikes, yes Virginia— that's a piece of cake with IPv6. Easier, actually, because you have only a single address realm to manage.

I play comment Bingo with them.