Re: draft-bourbaki-6man-classless-ipv6-00

[Mark Smith <[e-mail]>]

Adding new features to try to encourage adoption or making it resemble
IPv4 as much as possible still won't make a difference to adoption by
businesses if it isn't the best way to solve a business problem.




On 4 June 2017 at 19:31, Job Snijders <[e-mail]> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 04, 2017 at 10:55:59AM +0200, Roger Jørgensen wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Lorenzo Colitti <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> > On Sun, Jun 4, 2017 at 2:34 AM, Roger Jørgensen <[e-mail]> wrote:
>> >>

<snip>

>> look into the numbers, I assume there are one huge group missing
>> there, the enterprises and that's where the money, and damage will be
>> done.
>
> You talk about "damage", I think what you meant to say is "finally, the
> enterprise will deploy IPv6 too".
>

In enterprises, the only "marketing" IPv6 needs is that it solves a
business problem, either better than IPv4 does or that cannot be
solved by IPv4. It doesn't need new features purely to try to
encourage adoption or to better resemble IPv4 to encourage adoption.

There are enterprises where IPv6 is the better way to solve a business
problem than IPv4 - service providers and utilities using smart
meters.

A great way to remember this view on technology - when you go to the
hardware store to buy a drill, what you're really buying is a hole.

<snip>

Regards,
Mark.