From the Wired story, “Is the Internet Out of Room?”:
RTI estimates that only 30 percent of application vendors will have integrated IPv6 capabilities by 2008. And while market-leading Cisco Systems routers have been IPv6-ready for years, most corporate workstations aren’t. Current versions of Microsoft’s Windows operating system aren’t set up to support IPv6 automatically, although the company’s oft-delayed successor, Vista, will.
What they don’t tell you is that Mac OS X has supported IPv6 since Jaguar (10.2), which was released in 2002.
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And what you don’t tell us is that Microsoft has had a free Windows add-on for IPv6 available since 1998, and it has shipped with Windows XP since its release in 2001.
I mean, 2002 was probably a good time for Apple to implement it, seeing as how that wasn’t long after they finally let you stop using Appletalk and join the TCP/IP world, right?
Well, I didn’t know that, so I stand corrected. See, blogosphere self-policing in action!
No, Macs have been TCP/IP capable since the early 1990s.
I stand corrected as well. I suppose my beef was really Wired, since they left out pertinent information about BOTH of these OSes.
er, “with Wired”
[Charlie Brown teacher noises]
It’s going to take a lot more than theoretical complete application or vendor support for IPv6 to actually be deployed. I don’t see it happening any time soon. There are all sorts of things that make an IP stack work other than IP itself, and we haven’t gotten there yet with global routing, among other things.
That said, the day IPv6 comes, I’m leaving the networking industry. There is no fucking way in hell anyone’s going to pursuade me to deal with 128-bit addresses written in hex on a daily basis.