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Are we ready for IPv6? Is IPv6 ready for us?
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Source International Journal of Network Management archive
Volume 15 ,  Issue 1  (January 2005) table of contents
Pages: 61 - 66  
Year of Publication: 2005
ISSN:1099-1190
Author
Debby Koren  Department of Computer Science, Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem, Israel
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.  New York, NY, USA
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DOI Bookmark: 10.1002/nem.551

ABSTRACT

This article presents the hands-on experiences of a group of advanced computer networking undergraduates, under the guidance of the author, in setting up an IPv6 network. We concluded that though IPv6 has many positive features, it still isn't totally ripe. In particular, there is a shortage of application software and methods to configure the clients' recursive DNS server.


REFERENCES

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1. Huitema C. IPv6 (2nd Edn). Prentice Hall, 1998; p. 92.
 
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2. IETF draft-cheshire-dnsext-multicastdns-04.txt, 14 February 2004. (This draft actually expired on 14 August 2004, two days before I started writing this article, and there is no replacement draft or RFC, yet.)
 
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3. IETF draft-ietf-dnsop-ipv6-dns-issues-09.txt, 9 August 2004.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.5 Local and Wide-Area Networks
          Subjects: Internet (e.g., TCP/IP)

Additional Classification:
  C. Computer Systems Organization
  C.2 COMPUTER-COMMUNICATION NETWORKS
      C.2.2 Network Protocols
          Subjects: Protocol architecture (OSI model)
      C.2.4 Distributed Systems
          Subjects: Client/server


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