[158537] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Sun Dec 2 03:01:13 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <50BA33C8.4060709@matthew.at>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 23:55:57 -0800
To: Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>=20
> ps. I work for a division of my employer that does not yet have IPv6 =
support in its rather popular consumer software product. Demand for IPv6 =
from our rather large customer base is, at present, essentially =
nonexistent, and other things would be way above it in the stack-ranked =
backlog(s) anyway. One could argue that until we add IPv6 support =
throughout our systems, consumers will continue to demand IPv4 =
connectivity from operators in order to run software like ours, rather =
than us being cut off from any meaningful proportion of customers.
>=20
Yes, but unlike Skype, most popular applications have competitors and =
whichever competitor provides the better user experience will cut the =
others off from a meaningful proportion of their customers.
Owen
