Today we move to a larger internet.

King Damager · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:05

http://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/

Some of you may have noticed the link at the bottom of Google Homepage. I must admit the technicality does confuse me a bit, but basically it's getting bigger... apparently...

kd

timmy85 · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:09

Yet more pr0n.

ChrisJSY · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:10

They word it weirdly, they make it sound like (at first) it's running out of data space with the word "room" instead of saying addresses.

RomanNose · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:13

Trust google to make an advert out of something every company has to do.

dirtychinchilla · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:15

RomanNose said:
Trust google to make an advert out of something every company has to do.

I think they're just trying to be informative.

Memphis · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:17

RomanNose said:
Trust google to make an advert out of something every company has to do.

Trust a cynic with a little knowledge to make a fool out of themselves.

RomanNose · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:19

Memphis said:
Trust a cynic with a little knowledge to make a fool out of themselves.

It wasn't meant to be insulting to google, it was just pointing out that other companies such as facebook or microsoft wouldn't make an ad campaign about ipv6.

valkia · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:19

RomanNose said:
Trust google to make an advert out of something every company has to do.

It's more just information to any user of what's happening. Quite interesting to be honest, I knew this was happening but didn't realise it was this soon.

It's also good the video was the "founding father of the Internet"

RomanNose · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:23

valkia said:
It's more just information to any user of what's happening. Quite interesting to be honest, I knew this was happening but didn't realise it was this soon.

It's also good the video was the "founding father of the Internet"

Some of the major companies are doing it soon in fact a few have already done it but it seems as if our ISPs still have a while to go.
Here's a list of the ISPs that have done it in the UK.
https://www.sixxs.net/faq/connectivity/?faq=native&country=gb

Destination · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:35

Your link gives security concerns due to broken certificates.

touch · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:45

Hikari Kisugi said:
Your link gives security concerns due to broken certificates.

Delete the 's' from https://

aln · 6 Jun 2012 at 11:59

The quicker they do it = the quicker we get rid of nat = better internet.

It's particularly good if you'd prefer to be part of the internet, rather than just a consumer of the internet.

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:00

Today is the day that teddy bears have their picnic.

paradisiac · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:02

i dont get it :confused:

but as long as it doesnt cost me anything then im all for improvment.

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:02

paradisiac said:
i dont get it but as long as it doesnt cost me anything then im all for improvment.

Whats hard about it?

Basically more devices..

RomanNose · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:03

mrbell1984 said:
Whats hard about it?

Basically more devices..

Also no NAT. So every device will have an IP address.
( well in theory but many people will still use one).

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:05

RomanNose said:
Also no NAT.
( well in theory but many people will still use one).

NAT is useful. Especially for businessses that have 6000+ devices. I don't see a real reason to leave NAT just yet.

paradisiac · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:06

mrbell1984 said:
Whats hard about it?

Basically more devices..

i get the principle, but i dont get why they need to tell me about it. i dont remember when things like fibre optics was being added i got explainations as to why we needed it. or did we and i just missed it :confused:

like i said, as long as it doesnt cost me anything then im all for it, but could they not just make the changes and let it be, without explaining it

Deleted member 77746 · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:10

paradisiac said:
i get the principle, but i dont get why they need to tell me about it. i dont remember when things like fibre optics was being added i got explainations as to why we needed it. or did we and i just missed it
like i said, as long as it doesnt cost me anything then im all for it, but could they not just make the changes and let it be, without explaining it

If you deal with networks you are going to have to know about IPV6 as people move to it. You might not but a lot of sys admins will.

paradisiac · 6 Jun 2012 at 12:15

mrbell1984 said:
If you deal with networks you are going to have to know about IPV6 as people move to it. You might not but a lot of sys admins will.

but will this not be part of their inhouse training to get updated?
im not saying for people it isnt interesting, but adding it as a link on the main google page seems a bit OTT for something that might not happen for a while in a large enough capacity for anyone to really know about.