Owen DeLong wrote:
The goal of IPv6, IMHO, is to become the next lingua franca of the internet,
eventually rendering IPv4 unnecessary except in small pockets of legacy support.
Hey Owen,
Indeed, having otherwise fallen short of the mark that is what remains.
I agree that has not yet been achieved.
Its encouraging that progress and momentum continues, but there is no
way to be 100% confident that IPv6 has unlimited time to obtain dominance.
It was an objective to try and reach that point prior to IPv4 address shortages
caused real problems, but we pretty well missed that target when NAT started
catching on.
There were still plenty of opportunities to save the day that IPv6
global deployment missed.
I would not say that IPv6 has ben and continues to be a failure so much as IPv6
has not yet achieved its goal. Yes, it failed the (optimistic) objective of
achieving it’s goal prior to IPv4 shortages causing real problems, but that
happened pretty quickly and pretty early in the lifespan of IPv6 thus far (I
view the popularization of NAT as being the first marker of real problems in
IPv4 due to address shortage).
There were more mile markers than NAT on the address shortage problem
route and IPv6 failed most of those as well. Some of those happened
early, some not so much and there are probably more to come.
While shortage might have been the main driver of development of NAT,
provider independence and abstraction was the clear motivation for end
users to adopt it.
Getting IPv6 to near ubiquitous deployment in that short time would have been
an impressive accomplishment if it had happened.
Owen
,
20 years ago it was not considered optimistic to expect that there would
no longer be threads of this nature, it was essentially treated as
heretical to imagine there might be. And there were concrete
consequences to that mode of group think.
Even a naysayer as myself, back in 2004 really only expected another
decade or so of transition to clear dominance.
I will note that a decade to make 240/4 usable was cited as a major
opposition reason to it. And other ideas.
Joe
