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Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have IPv6 in their applications"....


From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins () arbor net>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:29:08 +0000


On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:

If the entire deployment path automatically requires 84 layers of NAT sludge, that's what gets tested, cause it 
"works" for "everybody".

Hence my questions regarding the actual momentum behind end-to-end native IPv6 deployment.  Inertia is generally only 
overcome when there's a clear positive economic benefit to doing so - 'savings', assuming there actually are any, are 
a) almost always exaggerated and b) generally not a powerful enough incentive to alter the status quo.

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