North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: How long much advanced notice do ISPs need to deploy IPv6?
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Sean Donelan wrote: > > > How much notice is adequate when changing widely used behavior on the > Internet? Widely deployed Filters, including uRPF, would probably qualify as this right? > > When the ARPANET changed from NCP to TCP/IP how many days advance notice > was needed? > > When the Internet changed from IPv4 to IPv6 how many days advance notice > was needed? > I'm going to show some (alot?) ignorance here... BUT: won't the network go: pure-v4 -> v4+v6 -> v6 (probably with v4 tunnels) -> pure-v6 I don't think its just going to go: POOF! one night, nor in one year... Judging by how long it takes people to upgrade a simple major application or OS it'll take YEARS to upgrade entirely to pure-v6. of course, I could be completely wrong.
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