1) Machines do not ship with it enabled by default; a Windows user has about as much probability of doing the necessary work to enable it as they do of making something other than Internet Explorer their default browser.
2) You have to go to a command line prompt and issue a cryptic command to enable it at all.
Err, not at all. You go to install/remove additional windows components (I do not recall the exact phrasing) and select IPv6.
3) When you enable it, you get a huge scare warning about
it being experimental.
I didn't. :-) And the bastard stopped doing A queries. :-)
4) 95% of the existing Windows machines in the world are not running XP, and the last time I saw the code for Windows 95/98 IPv6 support was the Summer of 2000; they took it down from their site after that.
5) AFAIK, it still doesn't support key exchange, so you have to manually configure the keys, which is a really difficult and tedious process, and won't work with any embedded device that depend on key exchange working (e.g. thing NAT gateways, etc.).
6) The last time I tried the "experimental" version, it did not correctly interoperate with AIX or FreeBSD, but worked fine Windows-to-Windows, so they've done *something* to it to embrace and extend it.
In short: "It's not ready for Prime Time".
-- Terry
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