[aklug] Re: IPv6

I've got very few problems using IPv6 and programming applications
that utilize it.

What do you mean by stack at this point? I must view that as a different a=
mbit.

- Shane

On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:45 PM, <bryanm@acsalaska.net> wrote:
> 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. =A0 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. =A0 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 -- =A0we are only just this year starting to
>> see test roll-outs in the marketspace. =A0These 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?
>
> --
> Bryan Medsker
> bryanm@acsalaska.net
>
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Received on Sun Oct 9 12:45:12 2011