Re: [v6ops] Is there a problem? [was: Why enterprises aren't adopting IPv6]

[Gert Doering <[e-mail]>]

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 30, 2021 at 09:23:28PM +0000, Hamilton, Robert wrote:
> I distinctly remember one of our network guys saying, "We'll never have wi-fi here. It's insecure, and...there's just no need for it."
> 
> As soon as someone higher-up got a wi-fi device that they wanted to use at work, our whole campus got wi-fi. Imagine that.
> 
> Customers with hand-held devices, phones, or whatever the future hand-helds are, will need to talk to someone with IPv6, because there will be too many devices for them all to have IPv4 addresses. I think if you want to have customers, you're going to have to have IPv6. If you don't want those customers, then it won't matter what protocol you won't be using any more.

The laziness of content providers (twitter, many news sites) to implement
IPv6 has not led to "loss of customers".  Instead, it had led to "providers
on the eyeball side need to ensure that IPv4-only content still works".

Incentives are wrong - content saving money leds to other people having
higher costs, and no way to move the hurt where it needs to be.

(And yes, laziness.  It's not like people have plans "we do this next
year", otherwise they would have done it 10 years ago "next year" - they
just do not care)

Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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