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Ipv6 was long ago became the internet standard and India being home to 1.6 billion people it should be based on Ipv6.

by Pidaymou 4y ago

BlueTemplar 4y ago
It took a while to finalize the standard - only happened in 2017, a decade and a half after deployment started !
- pantalaimon 4y ago
  What happened in 2017? I’m pretty sure I had IPv6 before that.
  - LeonM 4y ago
    Internet standards are not created by a single organization or person (well, not anymore). Everybody can help design the standards. I'm greatly simplifying, but roughly it goes like this: 1. Someone proposes a change. 2. If there is enough interest in the proposed change, an RFC (Request for Comments) is created, in draft stage. 3. Stakeholders can comment, if agreed upon the changes are placed in the RFC. Rinse and repeat. 4. Once enough stakeholders are happy, the RFC is accepted and it becomes an internet standard. An RFC in step 3 may already be mature enough to be used in production, though just not yet finalized (step 4). Before 2017, IPv6 was already being deployed because the RFC was already quite mature. However, with IP being such an important protocol for the internet, it took a long time before the RFC was finalized, though not much was being changed. In 2017, the RFC was finalized and thus it was set in stone (until a new RFC is created) that that is how the protocol must work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
    - pantalaimon 4y ago
      RFC 2460 dates back to 1998 [0]. There was an updated standard published as RFC 8200 [1] in 2017, but it is not uncommon that standards get updated by a new revision - the current standard is just as 'finalized' as the 1998 version was. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2460 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2460 [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8200 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8200
      - BlueTemplar 4y ago
        Hmm, but weren't there a lot of changes between 1998 and 2017 in terms of how IPv6 security should work ? (often changing random suffixes and such ?)
rg111 4y ago
> home to 1.6 billion people Where did you get that number?
- busyboy 4y ago
  He counted them.

Ipv6 was long ago became the internet standard and India being home to 1.6 billion people it should be based on Ipv6.

BlueTemplar 4y ago

It took a while to finalize the standard - only happened in 2017, a decade and a half after deployment started !

pantalaimon 4y ago
What happened in 2017? I’m pretty sure I had IPv6 before that.
- LeonM 4y ago
  Internet standards are not created by a single organization or person (well, not anymore). Everybody can help design the standards. I'm greatly simplifying, but roughly it goes like this: 1. Someone proposes a change. 2. If there is enough interest in the proposed change, an RFC (Request for Comments) is created, in draft stage. 3. Stakeholders can comment, if agreed upon the changes are placed in the RFC. Rinse and repeat. 4. Once enough stakeholders are happy, the RFC is accepted and it becomes an internet standard. An RFC in step 3 may already be mature enough to be used in production, though just not yet finalized (step 4). Before 2017, IPv6 was already being deployed because the RFC was already quite mature. However, with IP being such an important protocol for the internet, it took a long time before the RFC was finalized, though not much was being changed. In 2017, the RFC was finalized and thus it was set in stone (until a new RFC is created) that that is how the protocol must work. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments
  - pantalaimon 4y ago
    RFC 2460 dates back to 1998 [0]. There was an updated standard published as RFC 8200 [1] in 2017, but it is not uncommon that standards get updated by a new revision - the current standard is just as 'finalized' as the 1998 version was. [0] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2460 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2460 [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8200 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc8200
    - BlueTemplar 4y ago
      Hmm, but weren't there a lot of changes between 1998 and 2017 in terms of how IPv6 security should work ? (often changing random suffixes and such ?)

rg111 4y ago

> home to 1.6 billion people Where did you get that number?

busyboy 4y ago
He counted them.