Re: [v6ops] FYI: Microsoft's latest on CLAT

[Nick Buraglio <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 10:51 AM Bob Hinden <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Jen,
>
> > On Mar 11, 2024, at 4:45 AM, Jen Linkova <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2024 at 5:49 PM Vasilenko Eduard
> > <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >> IMHO: IPv6-mostly would not be enough incentive to improve Enterprise
> miserable IPv6 adoption.
> >
> > Indeed it would not. IPv6-mostly deployment model is not an incentive.
> > It's a mechanism to reach a goal. That goal needs to exist first.
> > Most enterprise networks are not going to deploy until they run out of
> IPv4.
> > Some of them might not reach that phase in any foreseeable future. To
> > be honest, I do not think it's a problem.
> > When those networks face IPv4 exhaustion, the reasons for delaying
> > IPv6 adoption magically fade into insignificance, but not until then.
>
> I agree, and would add that IMHO enterprises who are fine with 1918
> addresses, won’t transition to IPv6 [Only/Mostly] until it can be shown it
> will same them enough money to justify the transition cost.
>

This has been my experience as well. Unless there is a financial or
compliance reason to change, there is no incentive to change. And, this
applies to not just v6, it's pretty much any technological change,
especially large ones.



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> Bob
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