URLs, IPs and interception

[Ian Batten]

On 2 Mar 2008, at 18:26, Peter Fairbrother wrote:

> Roland Perry wrote:
>
>> ipv6 is simply "more numbers, therefore more addresses".
>
> You wish. I wish too, come to think of it.
>
> I hereby propose IPv8, which actually _is_ just IPv4 with more  
> numbers.

A common discussion over lunch in our canteen (when we can get a  
table: on Friday we had Gordon Brown nabbing a table for himself) is  
just that.  Why, we ask, do telco contracts so rarely mention IPv6?   
The conclusion we came to is that IPv6 suffered from creeping  
featureism (to be charitable) or OSI complexity envy (to be less  
charitable).

ian