Re: [44net] IPv6

I have not said that I do not want IPv6! My opinion is that we should not get a large IPv6 allocation (like a /32) and then try to route that ourselves, like we currently do with IPv4.   With BGP advertisements of small fragments of it, and with a tunnel mesh to route between us. Instead, everyone should just get IPv6 allocations from their local ISP, or from 6in4 tunnel providers like HE, etc. Let THEM do the routing, and when someone wants to make a tunnel or radio link between two networks that is still a possibility.   But we do not need to build that entire backbone routing infrastructure ourselves, it already exists. Instead of having a "nicely memorizable address" (which does not exist in IPv6 anyway...) we instead can just build and distribute a whitelist containing the IPv6 addresses that amateurs around the world are using, which can be used for some "friend or foe" identification.  Although it would be much better to devise a new system for THAT.  (some authentication/authorization system that allows us to admit radio amateurs to services which are by nature only available for radio amateurs, like access to remote transmitters) Rob On 5/21/21 6:36 AM, John via 44Net wrote: