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Re: WG Action: Conclusion of IP Version 6 (ipv6)

  • From: Iljitsch van Beijnum
  • Date: Thu Sep 27 18:22:07 2007

On 27-sep-2007, at 23:25, Randy Bush wrote:

and the unscalable tunneling schemes are making a mess, in architecture,
in implementation, in user experience. the latter is causing folk to
turn off ipv6.

So run IPv6 natively and your tunneling issues are history.

there is a problem that the ivtf

IVTF? That sounds like a fertility treatment...

is dominated by the very vendors who
are holding up deployment by incomplete, poorly performing, expensive to
scale products. and adding complexity and features is not helping this
either.

Strange. What I keep hearing is "we can't possibly deploy IPv6 until it has <insert favorite IPv4 feature>". (And then when that feature becomes available somehow IPv6 still isn't deployed.)

The simple truth is that IPv6 will be widely deployed as soon as it reduces cost / increases income / enables features that can't be had otherwise. The rest is just details which we generally get 80% right, which makes for an annoying 20% but that's life.