What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?

Tue Mar 12 19:32:49 UTC 2013

On 03/12/2013 12:27 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> Once IPv6 is sufficiently ubiquitous (rough estimate,
>> but say 900+ of the Alexa 1000 sites have IPv6 and ~95%
>> of eyeball networks), you'll see a rapidly declining desire to
>> pay the increased cost of supporting IPv4.
> While that is surely true, it's not on a trajectory to happen this
> year. Or next year. Or the year after that. Call dual-stack an
> "intermediate" solution. Treat is as "temporary" or "very temporary"
> at your peril.
>

Will dual stack cease to be before we all cease to be? Barring
an immortality breakthrough, I'll bet on me first.

Mike