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Re: IPv6
From: "Paul Melson" <pmelson () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 06:36:03 -0500
I say "lazy path forward" because at this point IPv6 is nearly 2 decades
old and arguably > has less of a foothold than ISDN after the same time span. Hehe! I just recycled some ISDN gear this year while thinking, "what a shame." But it's a good lesson in technology paradigms and standards adoption.
Almost all of what was considered "innovation" is either enfolded into
IPv4 or proven to > be less useful than imagined. I suspect a fair number of right-thinking people are asking > "is this the best we can do? are we really only doing this because we are running out of > addresses?" I worry that we'll *only* get a bigger address space out of this migration
and that is a tragedy.
The cost-reward appraisal I've made of IPv6 is that it's not worth it right now. Of all of the problems I need to solve at a networking level, the number of available public addresses isn't even a Top 20 issue. I'm far more likely to spend that kind of time and money and tolerate that level of pain in order to migrate to DNSSEC or TSCP Secure Email as they solve problems I don't have effective toolsets for managing today. And their adoption rates seem to be similar to IPv6. :-) PaulM _______________________________________________ firewall-wizards mailing list firewall-wizards () listserv icsalabs com https://listserv.icsalabs.com/mailman/listinfo/firewall-wizards
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