4 Sep
2017
4 Sep
'17
2:51 a.m.
On Mon, Sep 04, 2017 at 05:20:23AM +0000, Bill Horne W4EWH wrote:
I'm a bit behind the times, so please bear with
me. Is there a plan
and schedule for ampr.net to convert to IPv6?
There won't be a conversion. A new network will evolve. Ham stations
will become just one more thing on the network, from desktops to toasters.
The real question to be answered is when will IPv6 begin being used
on the air by hams, and that's not an IPv4 vs IPv6 conversion issue,
it's a when will hams get their act together issue.
There are currently no standards that I know of for using IPv6 on the
air in ham radio. Feel free to invent some. If you can convince other
hams to use it, you'll have a ham radio IPv6 network.
It is already possible to register IPv6 addresses in the AMPR.ORG domain.
There are two of them currently:
ns1.ah6bw IN AAAA 2605:b00:0:2:218:51ff:fedc:1dee
ipv6.kj4ewa IN AAAA 2001:470:1f10:1375::2
Someone else with a more thorough understanding of the IPv6 address
allocation procedure can explain why there will never be a ham-radio-only
block of IPv6 addresses akin to the IPv4 AMPRNet 44/8.
- Brian