Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

[Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis () neustar biz>]

At 21:29 -0400 6/30/05, Todd Underwood wrote:

> the rest of fred's comment stands with useful information but i'm
> still looking for the tipping point where people migrate, en-masse,
> away from the Internet to this new, incompatible network.

You can color me skeptical on IPv6 - basing this on attending way too 
many PPT presentations on the subject and only limited hands on 
experience.  But while I think the tipping point doesn't exist today, 
I bet it will sooner or later.

IPv6 is not all that "incompatible" with IPv4 really, it's a lot 
closer than CLNP and UDP.  It's not that IPv6 is chasing what IPv4 
already offers.  A lot of the improvements to IPv4 are thanks to 
IPv6.  The fact remains that IPv6's expanded address range will be 
what makes it trump IPv4 eventually.

It's not GOSIP all over again.  But the USG's OMB statement may not 
be the panacea to the fans of IPv6.
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