Re: IPv6 is better than ipv4

[Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists () gmail com>]

On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 3:37 PM, Jeff McAdams <jeffm () iglou com> wrote:

> On Thu, June 2, 2016 13:31, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 2, 2016 at 1:17 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
>
> > > Yes.
> > ​REALLY??? I mean REALLY? people that operate networks haven't haven't
> > had beaten into their heads: 1) cgn is expensive
> > 2) there is no more ipv4 (not large amounts for large deployments of new
> > thingies) 3) there really isn't much else except the internet for global
> > networking and reachabilty 4) ipv6 'works' on almost all gear you'd
> deploy
> > in your network
>
> (more, reasonably valid observations elided)
>
> Yes.  I had a member of an account team for a networking vendor express
> extreme skepticism when discussing IP address plans and work I had done.
> When describing why I went with an IPv6 only solution for this setup, he
> responded, "Why not just get more IPv4 addresses?  Just go back to
> IANA[sic] for more if you don't have enough already."
>
> OK, maybe it's not *just* marketing, but marketing (using the term
> broadly) is still a very large part of it.
​your example sounds like ignorance, not marketing.​