Let's Focus on Moving Forward Re: V6 still not supported re: 202203261833.AYC

Fri Apr 1 03:45:56 UTC 2022

Owen DeLong wrote:
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> Yep… He’s absolutely right… We need to find a way to get the networks that aren’t deploying IPv6 to
> get off the dime and stop holding the rest of the world hostage in the IPv4 backwater.
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> Owen
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>

You keep championing that approach, essentially unchanged for the past 
20 years with an impressive record of partial success and much failure 
and I will fully support and applaud your efforts in doing so. I will 
also hope that it doesnt take another 20 to finally succeed, because as 
you point out, you require an extremely high level of participation 
before its Mission Accomplished.

And its not unreasonable to expect that until that approach succeeds, 
that others' efforts to work on the ongoing problem receive the same 
support and encouragement.

IPv6 uber-alles adherents had more than enough time to claim it was 
going to solve the problem without any need for anything else and to 
"request" (quite strongly and wrongly so in my opinion) that everyone 
rally their efforts around that.

Now its time for those adherents to reciprocate.

And here is a little bit of constructive criticism to the Evangelical 
approach. Essentially, you need to pivot from how their efforts can save 
the world into how their efforts can benefit themselves.

You want more people to use IPv6? Make it worth their while. Lower the 
barriers the cost the risks and increase the bennies.

The early adopters, the activists, those who define themselves by their 
altruism you already got.

Dont be surprised when so many balk at doing things they have no 
particular defined need or interest in doing when the primary 
beneficiaries arent themselves, but the primary cost carriers are.

Or we can just wait and see how the natural course of events eventually 
plays out. Still looks likely that IPv6 will eventually take over the 
internet, but it sure would be nice if IPv4 did not become completely 
unusable before that manages to occur.

Joe