Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6

http://www.chinatechnews.com/2014/04/30/20482-chinese-government-will-invest-cny20-billion-to-promote-ipv6

by chiachun • 12 years ago

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LiweiZ2• 12 years ago

Dedicated to the high speed network connection inside the great wall.

LiweiZ2• 12 years ago

wow, been downvoted a lot. seems no one understands what I'm talking about here.

mahyarm• 12 years ago

CNY 20 billion is about $3.2 billion USD

Taniwha• 12 years ago

so approx $2^32 then. ....

ChiChou• 12 years ago

So once exceed, it falls back to -1? XD

notproductive• 12 years ago

IPv6 addresses are determined by the computer MAC address, some governments must be excited about this feature.

mikeash• 12 years ago

There's nothing that requires this. IPv6 addresses can be ephemeral and not tied to hardware identifiers.

nutjob2• 12 years ago

That's entirely misleading.

The MAC address is used if you autoconfigure IPv6, it's not required. Also you can enable privacy by requesting your host to generate a random host identifier.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Privacy

politician• 12 years ago

It's not entirely misleading if you can imagine a certain government requiring registration of devices before allowing access to networks like the Internet.

stephen_g• 12 years ago

I believe pretty much every single IP stack implementation uses privacy extensions by default now.

DiabloD32• 12 years ago

That is completely false. Most IPv6 in use right now is statically assigned, not automated, and not all automated systems use MAC to make a unique IP.

justincormack3• 12 years ago

I don't think thats true, I think most is automated. There are people like Comcast just allocating ipv6 automatically, that far outnumbers manual setup.

DiabloD32• 12 years ago

I wish the US would spend this much to promote IPv6.

wmf• 12 years ago

Why? Japan spent a lot of effort on IPv6 and what did it get them?

coderzach• 12 years ago

Why? To get widespread ipv6 support, I'd suppose.

illumen• 12 years ago

Cheap gigabit internet for all?

briandh• 12 years ago

On top of what wmf said, with whatever government investment has or has not already been made, the U.S. has the fourth highest* IPv6 adoption by percentage of requests as of Dec 2013 [1]. That is double what it was just six months prior [id].

Moreover, I doubt the US has as pressing a need to stave of address space exhaustion as do developing countries like China with rapidly expanding internet uptake.

*biased by Akamai's usage rates from country to country, of course

[1] http://www.networkcomputing.com/networking/ipv6-adoption-her...?

dfc2• 12 years ago

PLA Unit 61398 is tired of pivoting through all those pesky NAT firewalls.

Niten• 12 years ago

Rubbish. IPv4 NAT is not a security feature.

kiallmacinnes4• 12 years ago

Every time I hear someone calling a NAT a firewall, it rubs me the wrong way.

No matter what security benefits a NAT may or may not provide, a NAT is anything BUT a firewall. Stop calling NAT a firewall!

dfc2• 12 years ago

Stop giving me orders as if I work for you.

justincormack3• 12 years ago

I guess they can spend the money on getting rid of Windows XP, as it barely works.

Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6

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