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draft-ietf-v6ops-addr-select-ps-02



I'm reading draft-ietf-v6ops-addr-select-ps-02 and I found something that I find somewhat troublesome:

2.2.1. IPv4 or IPv6 prioritization The default policy table gives IPv6 addresses higher precedence than IPv4 addresses. There seem to be many cases, however, where network administrators want to control the address selection policy of end- hosts the other way around.

I have a hard time believing this is true. Why would anyone want to enable IPv6 and then leave it unused? And if it is true, it's highly problematic: if IPv6 capability is available but not used, this means that problems (that are common when deploying new technologies) will remain unseen and therefore unfixed.