Remember "Internet-In-A-Box"?

Thu Jul 16 05:46:13 UTC 2015

On 7/15/15 7:32 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
>
> Go to any business with hardware that is 3-5 years old in its IT
> infrastructure and devices ranging from PCs running XP to the random
> consumer gear people bring in (cameras, printers, tablets, etc.) and see
> how easy it is to get everything talking on an IPv6-only (no IPv4 at
> all) network... including using IPv6 to do automatic updates and all the
> other pieces that need to work. We're nowhere near ready for that.
> None of which is the fault of the protocol.  Blame the equipement vendors
> for being negligent.
>

I could blame the people doing IT in those environments too, but that 
doesn't make it so that nobody needs IPv4 addresses to deploy servers to 
keep talking to these folks.

Matthew Kaufman