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Create/support a national IPv6 wired/wireless Internet

Connected services are to the 21st Century (and beyond) what the telephone was to the 20th century. A national CTO should support and enable the creation of a wired/wireless IPv6 wired and wireless Internet that blankets the entire country, so that everyone, rich and poor, young and old, urban and rural, has equal and affordable access to this system. It should be a public utility, like the electrical and water systems.

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  • nacnud commented  ·   ·  Report

    IPv6 is a national security issue..

  • trejrco commented  ·   ·  Report

    @JPS - MultiHoming can be done in v6, just like it can be in v4 today ... and may be better eventually, but that is irrelevant right now. And NAT is far from perfect :)
    @TMCMH - exactly
    @JPS - At its simplest - IPv6 is plumbing. If you have plumbing that is as functional as you need today, are you driven to replace it? The problem is that *soon'ish* we will have a real problem with IPv4 ...

  • Alexgrieve commented  ·   ·  Report

    Agree on the public utility idea -- technology TBD. Presumably a CTO wd have a general remit and explore specifics?

  • gfb commented  ·   ·  Report

    This is agreeable. I don't care to the material solution...whatever vettes out is fine but the internet is quickly becoming important and frankly is becoming more proprietary every day.

  • ecohen16 commented  ·   ·  Report

    we have WiMax technology also. Free nationwide wireless broadband (not 3G) should be a top priority.

  • jps commented  ·   ·  Report

    tmcmh: if the government mandates IPv6, then they pretty much mandate migration away from multi-homing. I'm still not convinced.

    AnonymousCoward: It's not perfect, but NAT has been solving the problem of address space limitations for more than a decade now.

  • tmcmh commented  ·   ·  Report

    Re: market adoption. The key thing is to use the standards-adopting and -promoting power of the gov't to move us all to IPv6. This is exactly the kind of thing the government can do that the private sector cannot.

  • AnonymousCoward commented  ·   ·  Report

    Some companies are going to need it soon, if they want to talk to their outsourced plants in china. I've seen predictions saying they will run out of ipv4 addresses less than three years from now.

  • jps commented  ·   ·  Report

    If IPv6 is so great, why hasn't the market adopted it? It's not like most systems don't ship with it.