Subj : Knock Knock
To   : Carol Shenkenberger
From : Lawrence Garvin
Date : Thu May 24 2001 03:40 am

Carol wrote to Lawrence at 18:05 23 May:

 CS> *** Quoting Lawrence Garvin from a message to Carol Shenkenberger
 CS> *** 

LG> Carol wrote to All at 10:43 23 May:

 CS> Who there?

LG> Hi Carol!

 CS> JUst wondering if this place was used.  I connected and waited 2
 CS> weeks...

It's use is sporadic. Mostly due to my lack of promotion of its use.

I'm not sure if that's a reflection of a more growing awareness of TCP/IP in 
the Fido community, thus a lower need for this echo...

Or whether it's a reflection of the general drop in techically oriented people 
participating in Fido.

In addition, my own involvment in "TCP/IP issues" has dropped significantly in 
the past year or so.

I did just read moments ago, though, in a message sent a couple of weeks ago, 
that Cisco has announced addition of IPv6 support to IOS. I imagine if that has 
the expected effect of increasing IPv6 implementations, that we might pick up 
some discussions in this echo about IPv6.

The end of January we had a really short thread here on the existence of IPv6, 
but there wasn't much to add at that time. Most computer operating systems are 
now providing support, but because Cisco was not shipping support in IOS, there 
was very little adoption, or motivation for adoption.

It remains to be seen whether there will be now.

My position still is that the actual occurrence of real IPv4 addresses in use 
is levelling off, if not declining, as a result of increased use of firewalls 
and private addressing.

Of course, the counter argument to that, and a valid one, concerns wireless 
devices. What's not yet been shown, though, is whether there's actually going 
to be a significant market interest in having wireless connectivity to every 
possible thing in the world.


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