On 20-May-2009, at 08:32, Paul Rendek wrote:
www.IPv6ActNow.org is a one stop website that explains IPv6 in terms that everyone can understand and provides a variety of useful information aimed at promoting the global adoption of IPv6.
That web page looks very nice and shiny, although I'm slightly bemused by the scrum of people on the right, and wonder whether the people at the front are enjoying themselves. Is the moral of that picture that early adopters can expect to get injured? :-) One question, though, directed at this list and not at the editors of that web page. The text on the front door talks about IPv6 being the successor to IPv4, and about it being time to move on. To me, there's an implication here that we're talking about a transition from IPv4 to IPv6, which (again, to me) implies that there's a vision of IPv6 being the overwhelmingly dominant protocol on the Internet with IPv4 marginalised (e.g.) like DECNET and IPX in 2009. Does anybody here expect this to happen in their lifetimes? Or do people imagine that IPv4 is so entrenched that it will never really go away, regardless of the growth in IPv6 deployment? Just curious, really. There's a slight operational base for the question, which is that a transition implies IPv6-only nodes, whereas an entrenched IPv4 Internet means we'll be dual-stack for ever. Joe