Comments on: Apple’s secret “Back to My Mac” push behind IPv6

By: Ideas for Apple: AirPort Mobile — RoughlyDrafted Magazine

Ideas for Apple: AirPort Mobile — RoughlyDrafted Magazine — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 01:05:29 +0000

[...] 10.6% share of 802.11n WiFi market A Global Upgrade for Bonjour: AirPort, iPhone, Leopard, .Mac Apple’s secret “Back to My Mac” push behind IPv6 Integrating iTunes with AirPort The company has already dabbled with iTunes integration and WiFi [...]

By: volkris

volkris — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:11:35 +0000

I don’t think Apple is in the habit of rolling out solutions in search of problems; it’s just not their style. IPv6, in particular, solves a number of problems that have come up in IPv4 and offers solutions for problems most people didn’t even realize they had.

Apple can’t fully deploy IPv6 through these workarounds, but it can get people halfway there and in doing so encourage full IPv6 deployment.

IPv6 is really a chicken an egg story: without others to talk to over IPv6, why would ISPs invest the serious effort and money to enable it, but without infrastructure why should content providers bother?

Another way to look at it is to realize that the cost of sticking with IPv4 is spread to every consumer and every software developer who has to deal with the frustrations and limitations it brings, but the cost of switching is mainly charged to the network providers. What’s in it for them?

By: fatbarstard

fatbarstard — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:18:17 +0000

I don’t get it.. IPv6 offers all this groovy security stuff that IPv4 doesn’t have, and which makes the Internet a scary place… and no one can see a reason to install it?? Am I missing something here??

But here is the thing… Apple can successfully ‘deploy’ IPv6 via various work arounds in IPv4… so is IPv6 more of a solution looking for a problem than anything else…?

By: talonhawk

talonhawk — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 18:42:02 +0000

I would really love an in-depth article about IPv6, 4 and whatever came before. This was very helpful for me to get an overview of what IPv4/6 actually are, but now my appetite has been whetted, I’d like to get more meat on this subject.

Thanks for all the work toward research you have done for those of us who are not content to follow only the marketing companies push out.

By: John E

John E — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:17:28 +0000

thanks! very informative. explained a lot of stuff in the preferences settings and BTMM i did not understand. question: so are the default IPv6 settings in Network preferences the ones to just leave alone? or what?

By: jfatz

jfatz — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:10:27 +0000

You seem to have made John Welch pretty testy!