Re: [v6ops] Operational Consensus on deployment

[Philip Homburg <[e-mail]>]

> Somewhere else in the world, the biggest and smartest companies
> are investing billions of dollars into futuristic cloud platforms
> that dont even have token IPv6 supports (Azure and Google Cloud)
> 
> In summary, the premise of the daul stack transition for the Internet
> is faulty.  It already failed.

People have been creating websites that only worked on IE6 long after it
became clear that doing so was a bad idea.

The question is if IPv4 is going to be bad enough that the pain of supporting
IPv6 will be worth it.

If so, the transition will happen and probably will even happen quickly.

The current IPv6 is mature enough that you can run it in production. Whether
people will run it in production depends on whether there is a net gain in
doing so.

That gain has to come from off-loading traffic from scarce IPv4 addresses.