Comments on: ICANN turns on next-gen IP addresses

New version of Internet Protocol data has been added to six of the world's root servers, assuring supply of unique IP addresses.

[PorkchopXL]

Conversion?

What is the big push for intra-company network devices to support IPv6 addresses? I thought the plan for IPv6 included routers that could NAT from IPv4 to v6 so we could still use v4 networks interally if we wanted?

[ithinker]

Conversion?

IP6 ready is a tough questions to answer.

I guess that the big push is at the time when the IPv4 will be phased out. The related software and hardware (including networking sw & hw) have to be compatible with IPv6.

BTW, if your company has no interaction among other company. That's fine. You can use NAT to solve all the problem. But, if your company like my company running a FTP server and we need to access other company FTP servers for file exchange. That is another story.

That is if our company partner FTP servers has changed to IP6, I mean pure IP6 address scheme, no IPv4 address at all. Then, for those users who need to access this pure IP6 FTP server their PC must have been IP6 ready to recognize the partner IP6 address.

In this case, the software and hardware lie on the path between my company users and our company partner FTP servers must have been somewhat IP6 ready to enable the network connection works. For example, the FTP client as well as the OS must know the IPv6 address in order to build the FTP network connection.

[wbenton]

Translation... what's wrong with translation?

If enough IPv4 to IPv6 translation servers were set up, there would be no such problem.

The current problem only resides because of the lack of IPv4 to IPv6 translation servers.

Consider them like NAT servers translating one address scheme to another address scheme. If the number of translation servers were properly set up, the transition would be smooth.

It's because of the lack of such translation servers that we have the current problems.

That said... what part should ICANN play in ensuring that there are enough properly implemented translation/NAT servers?

Walt