Wednesday July 21, 2004
Wednesday July 21, 2004 If you got that joke then you're part of a small club: the few (for now) who can read IPv6 addresses in literal form.
Yes, IPv6 again! Why do I come back to that topic? Because yesterday (July 20th 2004) ICANN officially announced support for IPv6 in their root servers.
What the hell does that mean, do you ask? It means that DNS, the mechanism that translates internet names like www.sun.com into IP addresses, can now return IPv6 addresses as well! The first 3 countries (or subdomains) to follow suite are Japan (.jp), Korea (.kr) and France (.fr).
Things are really moving fast on that front. After the Department of Defense mandate (see my blog entry dated June 28th) this is a very important step towards the large scale adoption.
What we need now is Linksys & Netgear providing IPv6 with 6to4 tunneling in their routers and we're all set!
P.S.: ::1 is the IPv6 equivalent for 127.0.0.1, the loopback address, also known as localhost or ... home.
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