Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>]

On 11 mei 2011, at 20:39, George Bonser wrote:

> > So what's the alternative? Never change anything?

> Of course not.  But the best course forward is going to be different for
> different folks.  What might work best for me might not (probably WILL
> not) work best for everyone else.  One has to look at their situation
> and plan the best path for their business with their architecture and
> the resources they have available to them.  I suggested one option but
> that might not work for others.

I find it strange that you approach this issue as one of the great questions of our time. If you don't want to enable 
IPv6 for your service at this time, then don't enable IPv6 for your service at this time. But you'll have to do it at 
some point, so doing it together with your competitors and/or big players seems like a good choice. Going through huge 
lengths to optimize for a problem that will only exist for a couple of years or so doesn't make sense to me. Also, all 
this special case logic has a nasty tendency to create all kinds of unexpected problems down the road. I'm sure that 
the people at Microsoft thought it was a swell idea to enable 6to4 by default. If they hadn't done that, they'd saved 
us all a lot of wasted time.