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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: moving to IPv6
[ soapbox ] > What problem is IPv6 solving? IPv6 solved the problem it was intended to solve. In '93-'94, there was an increasing sensationalist panic in the half-informed press that the internet was going to run out of address space in the next fifteen minutes. This is despite the ALE WG (soon cidrd) analyses to the contrary, but it made 'good' press. This presented a serious problem to the internet community, both in market perception and in the amount of time and energy (of otherwise useful folk) it was taking to combat the bogus press. The IPv6 decision immediately solved that problem. Victory over the address space problem was declared. The industry press went on to be cluelessly sensationalistic about other things. And IPv6 did not even have to be deployed! Many people consider this to be a good thing, as IPv6 has not really been demonstrated to improve anything. OTOH, the much maligned CIDR effort received horrid press but seems to have been amazingly successful in actual deployment and use. Judge by the results, look at the curve (Tony Bates's weekly cidrd report). randy
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