IPv6 woes - RFC

Tue Sep 7 01:16:12 UTC 2021

Regulatory enforcement by whom? Last I knew there wasn’t a world wide Internet regulatory body.

> On Sep 6, 2021, at 2:33 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 5 Sept 2021 at 19:22, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
> 
>> So where does that put us in a decade or two?  Which protocol is
>> optional?
> 
> If we don't get regulatory enforcement or voluntary commitments to
> sunset IPv4, we are doomed for dual-stack for the foreseeable future
> (decades).
> I absolutely HATE testing, developing and supporting IPv4+IPv6, more
> than doubling my time, adding 3rd stack would actually not increase
> cost that much, it's the 1=>2 which is fantastically expensive. And
> costs are transferred to customers.
> Those who have not done _anything_ with IPv6, have done the right
> thing from business POV, they've had lowest cost, least issues and
> have had other people pay for the improvements of the stack. And even
> today, I see no business sense deploying IPv6.
> 
> Now if we'd know, all of our CDN, cloudyshops and tier1 will start
> dropping IPV4 at edge in 2040, this would create good business reason
> to start developing to IPv6, you'd know you need to have it, and you'd
> know you have finite window when you need to support both.
> And this is something we should commit to do, and everyone would
> benefit from the comment.
> 
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>  ++ytti