Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested

Tue Nov 9 00:45:01 UTC 2004

On Mon, Nov 08, 2004 at 02:25:00PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:

> More to the point, it seems to me the working group is highly
> enterprise focused, and seems to want to give enterprises what
> they (think) they want with little concern for how it impacts the
> global Internet.

Well, thinking about the enterprise for a change might be a good idea,
as the Enterprise markets are the one paying most of the ISPs in the
end. And with the ISP-centric approach of the current address
policies there is absolutely no chance IPv6 will ever make it to the big
market. Snip

You bring up a very good point and one that is often ignored.  The
enterprise customers

Do they understand IPv6
Do they want IPv6
Do they need IPv6
Are they writing IPv6 applications

Right now there is no good reason for them to switch to ipv6 and they
certainly aren't writing any apps for it.  They are however waiting and
hoping it doesn't happen.