ARIN IPV4 Countdown

Tue Jul 14 23:57:31 UTC 2015

> On Jul 14, 2015, at 16:09, Curtis Maurand <cmaurand at xyonet.com> wrote:
> 
> i think IPV6 adoption is going to be very slow.  It's very difficult for the layman to understand and that contributes to the slow rate of uptake.

Who is the layman in this story? Almost every system I work with at home and in the datacenter has IPv6 turned on by default. If someone wandered through those networks, and started turning on IPv6 infrastructure so that they started getting IPv6 addresses, my bet is that most of the java-based applications would already be bound to the stacks in such a way that they would just start sending traffic over IPv6. I base this on the fact that any number of developers have been confused by “::” being somewhere in their world now. Those people don’t care about the network, or IPv4 vs IPv6. It would just work.

Now, if layman == Network Operators, and Networking people at Corporations, well, there you might be right.

Cheers,
-j