[81841] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edward Lewis)
Fri Jul 1 00:06:19 2005
In-Reply-To: <20050701012904.GJ4374@renesys.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 00:05:36 -0400
To: Todd Underwood <todd@renesys.com>
From: Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz>
Cc: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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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