On 9-okt-2007, at 6:35, Tony Li wrote:
Tony, the work's been done for IPv6, for most infrastructure productsand a quite large chunk of applications. Good luck in asking developmentmanagers to start over. Unfortunately this is orthogonal to the better/worse discussion.
I think you greatly overestimate the amount of work that's been done as compared with the amount of work left to be done. There would still seemto be a lot of maturity lacking in v6 products.
That sounds like a half full / half empty kind of discussion. All major OSes support IPv6. For nearly all of the top 10 applications used over the internet there are IPv6 capable servers and clients. There are routers that can forward IPv6 at the highest available line rates.
I recently saw an ICANN survey that showed about 30% of firewall products support v6.
Ah yes, firewalls. It wouldn't surprise me if only 30% of them supports the TCP window scale option even though that has been in wide use for more than a decade.
Finally, development manager will do what the market requires. If something else will end up with more revenue than v6, it will get implemented morequickly than v6.
The key to the whole equation is finding the appropriate forcing functions to get peopleto deploy. Motivation is everything.
If people are happy with IPv4, what's wrong with that? The IETF created IPv6, it's now available to anyone who wants it. That should be enough.
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