China showing signs of brewing IPv6 eruption APNIC, the Asia-Pacific’s regional Internet address registry, has noticed a sharp uptick in IPv6 use by China Telecom, the nation’s top provider of internet services. While rivals China Unicom and China Mobile dominate mobile internet connections, more than 150 million subscribers rely on China Telecom for wireline services …
There is also another very important function , at least for the party leaders, in using status IP addresses and it has nothing to do with IT.
We will eventually also move to Ipv6 I just don't know when, its been in the pipeline for quite some time already.... Its like a silver bullet thats actually made of jigsaw pieces, you want to be the one that puts in the last piece but don't want to deal with the preparation...
Not privacy, no. v6 (at least with privacy extensions on, the default in most OSs) is no worse than v4 for privacy.
ISP logging knows who you are either way and it makes no difference whatsoever to account-based tracking (remember this is China where you often have to tie accounts to your real-world identity -- how is v6 supposed to cause any privacy issues compared to that?).
But how does your average end user check if he/she/it isn't directly communing with the Universe at large? Any HOWTOs on this (please, no Youtube videos, I don't want to waste 10 minutes -of which at least 10% is ads- having something explained that would fit on a single sheet of A4)?
... and you can still NAT if you want to - though it makes little sense.
Despite all the VPN vendor's marketing about Google knowing lots about you, so hide your IP, that really isn't a thing. They are unlikely to care at all about your IP as they work far higher up the stack. noscript is probably a more useful tool and not doing dumb things like using gmail or 8.8.8.8 for dns.
The real security reason to use a VPN is to block casual government snooping - internet connection records - that ISP's in many western countries have to log, and to bypass any stupid DNS blocking they may have put in place.
A major benefit of IPv6 is static addresses so that proper DNS can be a thing. That means you can do SAML with your own domain to interact with third parties, have proper certificates even for internal systems like a local firewall admin server, your router etc.
Why on earth did they use Hex.
There's nothing to stop you treating each component as if they're decimal numbers, you simply get 10,000 values per component rather than 65,536. For example, my primary mail server lives at IPv6 address ${PFX}::25. The fact that that address really has 37 decimal in its bottom 16 bits is irrelevant - the 25 has mnemonic value in my config, even if it's actually hex. The IPv6 address space is so huge that limiting yourself to using only 1/1845th of it isn't a problem.
Addresses are patterns, not values, so hexadecimal numbers are an obvious choice. Binary is too long winded, Octal doen't make sense outside of a 12/24 bit environment and decimal is meaningless (if you want a good example of why decimal is dificult to work with look at a PowerPC processor instruction set manual).
What I meant was that it was easier to process:-
192.168.192.168.192.168 etc
and work it out to
11000000 10101000 etc
than
C0:A8: ... ... etc
to calculate this to
11000000 10101000 in your head
I know that there are some of you that can work out hex to binary in your head but I definitely have problems with it !
The difference is, whatever you may think about the Chinese system of government, when they decide to do something, they do it.
IPv6 became US govt policy on September 28, 2010 (Memo "Transition to IPv6" from Vivek Kundra, Federal Chief Information Officer). Yes, it's an aspiration.
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