DoD IP Space

Sat Jan 23 06:28:09 UTC 2021

On Thu, 21 Jan 2021 11:07:42 -0800, Sabri Berisha said:
> Financial incentives also work. Perhaps we can convince Mr. Biden to give a .5%
> tax cut to corporations that fully implement v6. That will create some bonus
> targets.

And how would you define "fully implement v6", anyhow?

Case in point:  I helped deploy v6 at my employer *last century*, and the
entire network was (last I knew) totally v6 ready, and large segments were
v6-only.  Yet Google *still* says that only 80% or so traffic to them are via
v6.

The other 20% being end-user devices that aren't using v6 for one reason or
another - I'm pretty sure that a lot of those are because companies have told
the user to "turn off ipv6" to solve connection problems, and I know that a lot
of them are gaming consoles from a vendor that had a brief shining chance to
Get It Right on the last iteration(*) but failed to do so....

And when I retired, I had several clusters of file servers that weren't doing
IPv6 because a certain 3-letter vendor who *really* should have been more on
the ball didn't have v6 support in the relevant software.

Even more problematic: What do you do with a company that's fully v6-ready, but
still has several major interconnects to other companies that *aren't* ready,
and thus still using v4?

(*) The PS4 has ipv6 support in the OS - it will dhcpv6 and answer pings from
on and off subnet.  However, they didn't include ipv6 support in the development
software toolkit, so nothing actually uses it.  They appear to have fixed this in the PS5,
but that still hits the "other company isn't ready" issue.
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