Talk:Internet Protocol
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Insert some discussion on determining one's own IP, as well as changes due to firewalls etc.
Probably an idea to put a link to the rfc for IP. Quick google suggests it is rfc 791. Also, if we have IP, we probably want pages for TCP, UDP and ICMP too?
http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcxx00.html:
IP: rfc791
ICMP: rfc792
UDP: rfc768
TCP: rfc793
Or: http://livinginternet.com/i/ia_rfc_net.htm
It's all outside my field. I can barely grasp enough to wikify things. All the protocols need to be listed on a master page, as well as being nicely sorted into subcategories all pointing to end-branches which describe each protocol and their interrelation nicely. I was feeling blindly in the dark when I last touched on this subject. -- rack
While we are talking about addresses, it might be worth mentioning NAT (Network Address Translation) and the IP's that are reserved for NAT.
http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1918.txt:
The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) has reserved the following three blocks of the IP address space for private internets:
10.0.0.0
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10.255.255.255 (10/8 prefix)
172.16.0.0
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172.31.255.255 (172.16/12 prefix)
192.168.0.0
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192.168.255.255 (192.168/16 prefix)
This place is one of the central sites with a privacy/freedom focus, so it would be really nice to see someone sum up possible threats with IPv6. So far I've seen a few crappy articles that have mentioned identification via MAC addresses, but that's all. I've also seen loads of tech articles praising it, but I wouldn't consider any of them reliable anti-establishment sources.
Anyway I think I'll give it a try, at least I should be able to punch through this stupid ISP firewall.
- If an authority currently knows which static IPv4 belongs to which household/civilian they also do so regarding static IPv6 (you need a static IPv4 for an IPv6 tunnel). If you consider that spoofing is a non-issue with IPv6 while it doesn't make a project like Freenet impossible, i don't understand how you can see IPv6 more dangerous than IPv4. The huge advantage is that the IP address space is no more distributed under a USA-centric way. With everyone their own IPv6 address space, we will finally see the death of the moronic vhosts kiddies because there's no more a scarcity of it. Thanks! Finally, more and more electronic devices on the Internet could turn out as a Good or a Bad thing. I don't think IPv6 by itself is negative, i think aspects like PDA's with WiFi + IPv{4|6} + DRM are the suck.
- PS: Good luck with your effort! -- dpi
- IPv6 at some point will HAVE to happen due to the way we will eventually run out of them. Not because there will actually be as many computer points as there are variations of IP addresses but because institutions have reserved whole sections of them.
- However, there has been talk of rewriting the entire Internet Protocol to be much more fault tolerant. From what I understand, it was designed to withstand a nuclear attack but not an attack from the inside. Remember, it was created by the military who expected it to be mostly a closed network. Most of those protocols are 20+ years old.
- Interesting link on ShouldExist concerning multicast: http://www.shouldexist.org/story/2003/12/2/32212/2147
