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Re: IPv6 Finally gets off the ground

  • From: Christian Kuhtz
  • Date: Mon Apr 09 21:12:18 2007


On Apr 9, 2007, at 12:04 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:


J. Oquendo wrote: 
"On Thursday, 29 March 2007, a Cisco Systems router, flying
in low Earth Orbit onboard the UK-DMC satellite built by
Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), was successfully
configured by NASA Glenn Research Center to use IPsec and
IPv6 technologies in space."

http://www.dmcii.com/news.htm

Its good to know that IPv6 is finally being used along
with encryption! Albeit in outer space, maybe one day we
could all catch up with this "out of this world"
technology that people could now claim is "light years"
ahead of us.

I'm looking forward to a future where pc104/isa bus based routers figure
prominently in the ip core!

Have recently checked the weight requirements for core routers? Seriously heavy lift capacity launch vehicles would be required... not to mention the drag encountered in LEO would likely also be considerable and not yield good uptime.

Best regards,
Christian