[aklug] Re: IPv6

On Wed, October 5, 2011 2:36 pm, Leif Sawyer wrote:
> IPv4 depletion, however, is a serious thing because the
> conversion to IPv6 has taken too long. When you consider
> that IPv6 as an IP technology has been around for over 15 years
> and it's never gotten out of the lab except within the last 5?
>
>
> But to come back to your question, it will be a slow ramp-up,
> utilizing dual-stack support. Once a solid majority of customer
> and commercial users are IPv6 capable, you will start seeing
> IPv4 shutdowns - because it will become financially beneficial
> to folks to get rid of IPv4 and sell it upstream.
>
> It will probably be at least 12 months before the consumer
> entrance into IPv6 -- we are only just this year starting to
> see test roll-outs in the marketspace. These test rollouts
> are helpful in discovering many of the issues involved in
> end-user assignment and usage of IPv6.

That's something I don't understand. How can IPv6 have been
around for 15 years without anyone developing a reliable stack
for it?

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Bryan Medsker
bryanm@acsalaska.net
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