Another Big day for IPv6 - 10% native penetration

Tue Jan 5 04:27:56 UTC 2016

On Mon, Jan 4, 2016 at 9:37 PM, Randy Bush <randy at psg.com> wrote:

> the more interesting question to me is: what can we, ops and ietf, do
> to make it operationally and financially easier for providers and
> enterprises to go to ipv6 instead of ipv4 nat?  carrot not stick.
>
> randy
>

The problem is, the only way to make it easier for providers and
enterprises to switch is to make it less scary looking and less complicated
sounding. That door closed when it was decided to go with hex and 128-bit
numbering. *I* know it's not nearly as bad as it seems and why it was done,
and their network folks by and large know it's not as bad as it seems, but
the people making the decisions to spend large sums of money upgrading
stuff that works just fine thank-you-very-much are looking at it and saying
"Ye gods... I sort of understand what IP means but that looks like an alien
language!"

At which point the ugly duckling gets tossed out on it's ear before it has
a chance to become a swan.