IPv6 Real World Maturity (was re: How long is your rack?)

Mon Aug 15 21:14:46 UTC 2011

I will admit to not having run the numbers and trying to compare IPv4
protocol-specific discussion threads vs. IPv6, but it certainly "feels"
like there are more.  My feeling is also that the IPv6 discussions are
much more fundamental, in that they're discussing basic deployment
strategies, etc.  But it could all be selection bias because it's
prominent in the collective mindset, I'll grant you that.

> Yes, IPv6 is currently a little less fully baked than IPv4. IPv4 is
> 20 years older than IPv6, so I say that's to be somewhat expected.

Point taken.  Anyone have time to try to do a long-term comparative
study of discussions on deployment strategies and things like NAT, DHCP,
etc, for IPv4 vs. IPv6, factoring in the differing levels of overall
Internet adoption at the time of IPv4 adoption vs. IPv6, etc?  If so, I
have a few other tasks I'd love to have you do... :)

As others have said, I guess what it really shows is that nothing ever
really changes, and no one (protocol designers, IETF folks, operators,
router vendors, etc) is perfect, despite our best efforts to be. :)

Regards,
Tim

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Tim Wilde, Senior Software Engineer, Team Cymru, Inc.
twilde at cymru.com | +1-630-230-5433 | http://www.team-cymru.org/
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