[Nanog-futures] IPv6 or not?

[michael.dillon at bt.com]

> 2) offer constructive feedback about what you would rather 
> see (bonus points for who might present it);

On the ARIN IPv6 wiki here
<http://www.getipv6.info/index.php/IPv6_in_the_News>
there is an article from April 2nd, that tells a bit about the work
various
carriers are doing to get IPv6 into production. It might be interesting
to
contact these companies and get one or more of them to present on the
problems
that they are running into in their test labs. I suspect that they will
tend
to simply refer such problems to vendors, but since IPv6 is all about
interoperability
it would be useful to give these problems a more public airing.

There has been a tendency for people to try out IPv6, find some
stumbling block, 
then put it on the backburner without publicising what the problem is.
Since we
are now at the stage where 99% of us have to deploy IPv6 commercially,
whether we
like it or not, it is important to air the specifics of these stumbling
blocks.

The 99% figure is based on assuming that pure IPv4 network services will
soon
be a niche market, and the majority will have to have at least some IPv6
services.
And I said that we have to deploy whether we like it or not, because I
am assuming
that IPv4 address space will be exhausted in two to three years which
seems to me
to be the minimum time needed to test and plan and deploy it as a fully
functional
Internet access service.

--Michael Dillon