At 2:34 PM +0000 5/29/07, Chris L. Morrow wrote: > > Actual behavior of ISPs will change as they realize even >> if they're not the first ISP to have to connect customers >> via IPv6-only, they will be face that situation in time. > >i'm not disagreeing or saying that ipv6 won't ever get deployed (or even >in time for ipv4 exhaustion) but... chicken/egg, sometime soon folks are >going to have to take it out of hide to start down the v6 path, some one >is going to have to convince their upper management that they really do >need to put this 'new service' that 'no one is asking for' and is 'still >somewhat experimental' (from a hardware/software/OSS perspective atleast) >onto their production infrastructure that is supporting YMillions of $$.
Chris - This is not a problem for the user community... The user community couldn't care less about IPv6. This is an issue for the ISP community, in that a day will come where you're going to desperately want to connect a new customer to the "Internet" via IPv6 and give them a reasonable customer experience. They're likely to to balk, and may not even have a full set of applications that work over IPv6, but that's still not going to matter. ISP's are going to have to actually *lead* the transition to IPv6 both in terms of infrastructure and setting customer expectations. /John p.s. It's not the classic chicken/egg situation; it's much simpler: Look up and see the IPv4 Internet - that's the egg, it's first, and it's falling. We have to recognize that fact and gentle catch it, or there just won't be any chicken.