How long much advanced notice do ISPs need to deploy IPv6?

Wed Oct 22 16:16:08 UTC 2003

Christian Kuhtz wrote:
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> So, since there won't be a flag day, ...

Maybe that's the point.  The notion of Internet flag days has largely
disappeared as the Internet's ubiquity and criticality have increased.
There won't be flag days for IPv6, S(o)BGP, BGP-5, etc.  

So what's a company like Verisign to do when they want to substantially
change the way the COM and NET zones work? (And is the answer different
if they want to make these changes solely for their own financial gain?)
If an incremental rollout isn't possible here, then folks end up in the
fairly rare position of trying to figure out how to roll out a
significant change that will affect the entire Internet at what will
essentially be the flip of a switch.  Clearly, "pulling a Verisign" and
doing it without notifying anybody beforehand isn't the right way.  But
this alone doesn't make it much easier to decide what *is* the right
way.

-Terry