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10.3: Use IPv6 by default in Safari
Authored by: the1truestripes on Jan 22, '04 04:34:16PM

If you have set your own system up to use IPv6 then clearly you would care, and if the other system had gone to the trouble to set up IPv6 they would care.

If you don't care, then well, that's fine.

IPv6 does do some nice things, for example encryption is built into it, if it had be deployed rather then IPv4 nobody would have needed to invent https, or ssh the old easy protocols would have been fine. That is important because it means people don't have to reinvent (normally poorly!) security for each and every network protocol. As another example because it has a very large address space ISPs that provide IPv6 don't charge extra for globally reachable static addresses (i.e. you can run a server, and things like iChat AV work easier, so do P2P type programs). As another, about half of what Rendavus gives you was inspired by IPv6.

On the other hand nothing much about IPv6 is earth shaking. A lot of what was "only in IPv6" got pushed back into IPv4. A lot of it can be worked around. It would be nice if we all switched to IPv6, but the world won't end if IPv4 hangs around forever (which is good, as it will!), or even if IPv4 remains dominant forever - which may happen.

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