Chinese Government Will Invest CNY20 Billion to Promote IPv6

[mahyarm]

CNY 20 billion is about $3.2 billion USD

[Taniwha]

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

[dfc]

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

[kiallmacinnes]

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!

[Niten]

Rubbish. IPv4 NAT is not a security feature.

[DiabloD3]

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

[briandh]

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...?

[wmf]

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

[justincormack]

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

[LiweiZ]

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

[LiweiZ]

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

[notproductive]

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

[nutjob2]

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

[DiabloD3]

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.

[mikeash]

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