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Date:      Fri, 7 Mar 2014 19:59:50 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Dru Lavigne <dru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r44186 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking
Message-ID:  <201403071959.s27JxohV018689@svn.freebsd.org>

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Author: dru
Date: Fri Mar  7 19:59:50 2014
New Revision: 44186
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/44186

Log:
  Initial pass through IPv6 Introduction.
  It needs a second pass and a mention of how FreeBSD is leading
  the way with IPv6-only.
  The rest of this chapter needs a tech review by someone
  who knows more about IPv6 as the last two sections are
  still unclear on why/when someone would do this.
  
  Sponsored by: iXsystems

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml	Fri Mar  7 19:36:09 2014	(r44185)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.xml	Fri Mar  7 19:59:50 2014	(r44186)
@@ -4257,69 +4257,32 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds</sc
       </authorgroup>
     </info>
 
-    <para><acronym>IPv6</acronym>, also known as
-      <acronym>IPng</acronym> <quote><acronym>IP</acronym> next
-	generation</quote>, is the new version of the well known
+    <para><acronym>IPv6</acronym> is the new version of the well known
       <acronym>IP</acronym> protocol, also known as
-      <acronym>IPv4</acronym>.  &os; includes the <link
-	xlink:href="http://www.kame.net/">KAME</link>;
-      <acronym>IPv6</acronym> reference implementation.  &os; comes
-      with everything needed to use <acronym>IPv6</acronym>.  This
-      section focuses on getting <acronym>IPv6</acronym> configured
-      and running.</para>
-
-    <para>In the early 1990s, people became aware of the rapidly
-      diminishing address space of <acronym>IPv4</acronym>.  Given
-      the expansion rate of the Internet, there were two major
-      concerns:</para>
-
-    <itemizedlist>
-      <listitem>
-	<para>Running out of addresses.  For years the use of
-	  RFC1918 private address space (<systemitem
-	    class="ipaddress">10.0.0.0/8</systemitem>, <systemitem
-	    class="ipaddress">172.16.0.0/12</systemitem>, and
-	  <systemitem
-	    class="ipaddress">192.168.0.0/16</systemitem>) and NAT
-	  has slowed down the exhaustion.  Even though, there are
-	  very few remaining IPv4 addresses.  The Internet
-	  Assigned Numbers Authority (<acronym>IANA</acronym>) has
-	  issued the last of the available major blocks to the
-	  Regional Registries.  Once each Regional Registry runs
-	  out, there will be no more available and switching to
-	  <acronym>IPv6</acronym> will be critical.</para>
-      </listitem>
-
-      <listitem>
-	<para>Every block of IPv4 addresses allocated required
-	  routing information to be exchanged between many routers
-	  on the Internet, and these routing tables were getting
-	  too large to allow efficient routing.</para>
-      </listitem>
-    </itemizedlist>
-
-    <para><acronym>IPv6</acronym> deals with these and many other
-      issues by providing the following:</para>
+	<acronym>IPv4</acronym>.  <acronym>IPv6</acronym> provides several advantages over
+     <acronym>IPv4</acronym> as well as many new features:</para>
 
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
-	<para>128 bit address space which allows for
+	<para>Its 128-bit address space allows for
 	  340,282,366,920,938,463,463,374,607,431,768,211,456
-	  addresses.  This means there are approximately
-	  6.67 * 10^27 <acronym>IPv6</acronym> addresses per square
-	  meter on the planet.</para>
+	  addresses.  This addresses the <acronym>IPv4</acronym>
+	  address shortage and eventual <acronym>IPv4</acronym>
+	  address exhaustion.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
 	<para>Routers only store network aggregation addresses in
 	  their routing tables, thus reducing the average space of a
-	  routing table to 8192 entries.</para>
+	  routing table to 8192 entries.  This addresses the scalability
+	  issues associated with <acronym>IPv4</acronym>, which required every
+	  allocated block of <acronym>IPv4</acronym> addresses to be
+	  exchanged between Internet routers, causing
+	  their routing tables to become
+	  too large to allow efficient routing.</para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
-    <para>There are many other useful features of
-      <acronym>IPv6</acronym>:</para>
-
     <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
 	<para>Address autoconfiguration (<link
@@ -4327,16 +4290,11 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds</sc
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-	<para>Anycast addresses (<quote>one-out-of
-	    many</quote>).</para>
-      </listitem>
-
-      <listitem>
 	<para>Mandatory multicast addresses.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-	<para><acronym>IPsec</acronym> (<acronym>IP</acronym>
+	<para>Built-in <acronym>IPsec</acronym> (<acronym>IP</acronym>
 	  security).</para>
       </listitem>
 
@@ -4345,7 +4303,7 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds</sc
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
-	<para>Mobile <acronym>IP</acronym>.</para>
+	<para>Support for mobile <acronym>IP</acronym>.</para>
       </listitem>
 
       <listitem>
@@ -4354,22 +4312,12 @@ Received 264951 bytes in 0.1 seconds</sc
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>
 
-
-    <para>For more information, refer to <link
-	    xlink:href="http://www.kame.net">KAME.net</link></para>;
-
-      <para>Currently <acronym>IPv6</acronym> support for many
-	applications and services is very good, though for some
-	software it still needs work.  For authoritative information
-	about the support of <acronym>IPv6</acronym>, please consult
-	the Official Documentation for the software in
-	question.</para>
-
-      <para>Web, <acronym>DNS</acronym> and Mail applications and
-	servers have the best support for <acronym>IPv6</acronym>
-	because they are the most common use case.  Other applications
-	may have varying degrees of <acronym>IPv6</acronym>
-	support.</para>
+    <para>&os; includes the <link
+	xlink:href="http://www.kame.net/">http://www.kame.net/</link>;
+      <acronym>IPv6</acronym> reference implementation and comes
+      with everything needed to use <acronym>IPv6</acronym>.  This
+      section focuses on getting <acronym>IPv6</acronym> configured
+      and running.</para>
 
     <sect2>
       <title>Background on <acronym>IPv6</acronym> Addresses</title>



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