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Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

  • From: David Conrad
  • Date: Wed Jul 06 11:34:49 2005 
On Jul 6, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Scott McGrath wrote:
IPv6 would have been adopted much sooner if the protocol had been written
as an extension of IPv4 and in this case it could have slid in under the
accounting departments radar since new equipment and applications would
not be needed.
IPv6 would have been adopted much sooner if it had solved a problem that caused significant numbers of end users or large scale ISPs real pain. If IPv6 had actually addressed one or more of routing scalability, multi-homing, or transparent renumbering all the hand wringing about how the Asians and Europeans are going to overtake the US would not occur. Instead, IPv6 dealt with a problem that, for the most part, does not immediately affect the US market but which (arguably) does affect the other regions. I guess you can, if you like, blame it on the accountants...

Rgds,
-drc