IPv6 push doesn't have much pull in U.S

Mon Jul 18 17:07:57 UTC 2005

On 18-jul-2005, at 18:31, Kuhtz, Christian wrote:

> If there is pressure to adopt IPv6 rapidly in a given region, and that
> given region also happens to drive broadband technology evolution, and
> North America ends up being dependent on cheap equipment primarily
> driven by overseas standards..

I don't see this. For instance, the need for non-ASCII characters in  
(for instance) Asian languages has pushed Unicode. Modern systems in  
NA are all capable of using Unicode. But do users in NA actually  
_use_ Unicode? ASCII works fine for them 99% of the time.

Same thing with IPv6. Windows and MacOS have had IPv6 on board for  
years. Doesn't mean people use it.

> The key questions are

>     When will who you want to talk to speak IPv6?

That's a key question when you've made up your mind to be one of the  
last to adopt IPv6. The real key question is: when will it start to  
make sense to use IPv6 for my own stuff, regardless of what the rest  
of the world does? In an enterprise environment the ease of never  
again having to think about how many hosts are going to end up in the  
same subnet alone may be quite compelling. But it only makes sense  
when you can turn off IPv4 in most of the network and proxy or  
translate communications to the outside.