@jamesm@...
it is simple to support IPv6 as far as servers are concerned - register your IPv6 address at (usually) the same registrar as your IPv4 address - most modern OS's automatically generate IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and even old OS's like WinXP can turn it on. Unfortunately, it all depends on backbone support - Qwest, my ISP, does NOT support IPv6, so despite my server and my registrar supporting it (as well as my previous ISP), until they support it, I cannot serve IPv6 pages. Speaking of other bad things, Qwest still heavily uses PPPoE, a horribly inefficient protocol for Internet traffic, and even worse when converted to ATM packets (typical fiber - optimized for small packet phone conversations and horrifically inefficient for data - with PPPoE 40% or more can be overhead).
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