Not yet in North America. However in the Asia Pacific region you're out of luck. If an ISP there runs out of addresses, and in China they do, they have to NAT and/or provide IPv6. Now I grant you that the west doesn't use many Chinese webservices. But Australia is in the same boat. So in the not so distant future you will find yourself unable to use some Australian webservices if you don support IPv6.
Also the BGP tables will reach 512k entries within two years. As this is the maximum for hardware forwarding tables in many (older) routers be prepared for an IPv4 slowdown as these routers will forward IPv4 traffic over the slow path. Or unreachable sites as ISP's will start to filter all prefixes longer than /24 to prevent supervisors from overloading.

The nice status of IPv4 can be found at http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html
 

You mean you want to implement the DANE proposal ?
Well, you just have to wait a bit till NSSEC is widely deployed and the proposal ratified. But the protocols are already on paper.
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-dane-protocol/

But I'll pass until it can print BGA's. Seriously, for the complexity it can do now a breadboard is better suited.

And even if major components like a light transistor are developed I don't see optical computing taking off in the foreseeable future. This "diode" is kind of weak since it stops reverse light by dissipating the energy. So any non trivial computing function made with it will consume a non trivial amount of energy in the form of input light. Compare this to electronics where a switch in the on or off state doesn't use energy apart from leakage. The major thing consuming energy there is switching states, and even that is only caused by the components being non perfect, living in an non perfect world as we do.

I manage a few Bluecoat proies and Webpulse is an add-on feature. The boxes themselves offer a wide variety of lists you can subscribe to from all big filter list providers including Websense, SmartFilter, SurfControl, ALSI Intersafe and ISS/Proventia. You can also provide your own list.

Filtering is just one of the functions of the Bluecoat proxies however. For logging and reporting you don't need any contact with external services. The proxies also support intercepting and inspecting SSL traffic. The certificates stolen from Diginotar combined with these things make a perfect "I read your GMail" system.

Licences and software updates for the proxies can be downloaded from the Bluecoat website from any PC and then transferred to the box. It is however much easier to just let the box itself get the licence. But with a bit of hassle you can use Bluecoat proxies without letting them phone home. We still have two Bluecoats laying around which are end of life. But if I start them they still work and don't contact Bluecoat in any way.

In Frisian "dot net" is phonetically the same as "Don't do it". ( it's like " do it not" )

Sorry, it's 1.20AM here, I'm preparing to go to sleep.

Just like you. Every employee costs money, or do you pay to go to work ? (See P. Drucker in Managing in the next Society)

That is only one of my duties. I also take care of the security of your data. Just so it doesn't get lost and to minimize lawsuits and to prevent the competition from using it.

I'm in charge of what ever management sees fit to delegate to me. If you think that the management has delegated responsibilities wrongly please take that up with them. At this time they've delegate the responsibility of keeping the network running and data secure to me. If your wishes are a risk to my responsibilities we will have a discussion.

No, I work for the company. Just like you.

As said above, if you think that the management has delegated responsibilities wrongly please take that up with them.

So how much have tool expenses risen ? Has productivity increased enough to justify that ?

Do you enjoy the blackouts ? And hows the guy with the broken neck that tripped on the nitrogen line ?

If you have an IT support model like that, you're doing it wrong.

Sure, and we can accommodate that. After the design engineers manager agrees with the cost. He's the one that can asses if the increased productivity outweighs the cost. And he's also the one that will get the bill.

Sure, and like the example above we can accommodate most of them. However there are costs associated with that. We will tell you the cost and you can accept the bill or it won't happen.

To repeat my self once more, you can ask for functionality. If it doesn't interfere with my responsibilities I'll tell you what it will cost. If you accept those costs it will happen.

Sorry, a corporate network is not like your home network you toy with in the weekends. You know nothing about running a corporate network and associated risks and costs. You are just annoying because you think an extra workstation costs $500,- and 1TB storage costs $100 because you saw a PC and a disk drive in a store for that price. You don't factor in the price of the infrastructure and support contracts but somehow expect to magically be able to access all company resources with it. If it crashes it should be replaced for free and all your files you stored locally should again magically reappear because it cost you 400 hours to create them.

Indeed, so go do your job and I will do mine.

Kind of difficult if the network is down isn't it ? Also a shame if the company is sued to bankruptcy because you lost critical information. Let me help you with that.

A company is no place for prima donnas that can't cooperate with the rest. And you are certainly acting like one.

Hah, finger. If you want to reach me directly see if I'm logged on and echo to the appropriate terminal. Sure you need to have access to the root account, but if you don't I'm not interested in you anyway. ;-)