Re: IPv6 mistakes, was: Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:35 AM, George Bonser wrote:

> > In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to
> > Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act
> > together and deploy
> > IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of
> > your clued competitor didn't have to do a thing.
>
> Or tell her to run "Windows Update" and get the latest update for her
> existing OS which has the patch.
Because that certainly solved the DNS resolver over IPv6 problems
for all the WinXP users out there.

> > And then she has to do something *else* 9 months later when you need
> to
> > deploy IPv6 *anyhow*.
>
> Maybe, maybe not.  It depends on how it is deployed.  That "something
> else" might be as simple as "reboot the computer".
Unlikely unless she has IPv6 compliant CPE.

> > I encourage my competitors to design their business plans that way. :)
>
> Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting
> Class E into general use seems easy enough to do.
I'd much rather see the resources required go into improving IPv6 support and
deployment.

Owen