The countdown is on to PCI 3.1 compliance

[Nylanfs]

Is this going to have any impact on Smiteworks & FG?

https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/security_standards/pcidss_agreement.php?association=pcidss

[kylania]

Maybe for the online store, but the client itself doesn't hold any credit card information. Does it? :)

[Moon Wizard]

Probably will eventually be relevant, but hopefully will be embedded in HTTPS protocol and we can just ensure library supports.

I'm more concerned with IPv6 support since addresses will run out this summer, and I'm not sure how long IPv4 workarounds will stay valid for ISPs. Of course, I haven't researched specifically, just focusing on next major version having support.

Regards,
JPG

[kylania]

Oh, that's simple! /connect IPv4 + 2

;)

[damned]

Probably will eventually be relevant, but hopefully will be embedded in HTTPS protocol and we can just ensure library supports.

IPv4 addresses first ran out in 1998 - oh ooops - no they didnt.
They keep running out - and then not running out.
There is 4billion of them so they *will* run out but exactly when....

[dulux-oz]

IPv4 addresses first ran out in 1998 - oh ooops - no they didnt.
They keep running out - and then not running out.
There is 4billion of them so they *will* run out but exactly when....

Yes, we did run out in 1998 - but then we got smart and came up with some temporary solutions. And there's not 4 billion of them, there's only 3,758,096,384, and not all of them are available for end-device use, some are needed for inter-device connections (plus VPNs, Load-balances, etc, etc, etc).

The only reason that haven't run out -yet- is that we came up with work-arounds/hacks (eg NAT/PAT/DHCP). If certain institutions in the USA weren't squatting on bunches of Class Bs we'd have a lot more to go around (eg a University in the USA has been allocated 4 Class B's - that's 262,144 addresses - and is only using approx 60,000 of them). Meanwhile, the entire country of South Korea (I think it was) was allocated only a single Class C (256 addresses).

Most of Asia and Africa are running IPv6 exclusively (apart from translation gateways/routers), Oceania and South America are fast moving toward IPv6, and even Europe is heading that way - its only the States that are "dragging their feet".

And they'd better pull their finger out soon, because even with hacks like NAT we are running very, very short of IPv4 addresses very,very quickly worldwide. In fact, last I heard most if not all of the telcos, etc, were being mandated to ensure that any new routers, etc, that they purchased were to be IPv6 compliant, because the global backbone is changing over very soon - hence the date mentioned below.

How do I know? It's my job to know (its a curse being a qualified CCNP (that's Cisco Certified Network Professional) - amongst others, sometimes :( ).