IPv6

There was an interesting post on digg about IPv6. I shut my browser window so I'm not going to paste in the link.

IPv6 is the so called next version of the underlying protocol that the Internet runs on. The current version is IPv4.

IPv6 has all sorts of advantages, but the main one is IP address space.

The catch 22 with it is that if you migrate to IPv6 then you can't easily communicate with the exiting IPv4 internet without having a complicated and probably very slow protocol translation system.

It would be a bit like changing from speaking English to speaking Esperanto. Esperanto might be technically better, but everyone else speaks English! You'd have a lot of trouble doing business in the world if you refused to speak anything but Esperanto right?

I think that the only way people will move to IPv6 is if there's some act of government that mandates it, or if youtube and google stop their IPv4 service and moves entirely to IPv6.