> Put differently, you work in this arena too... you've presumably
> talked to stakeholders. Can you list some of the reasons people have
> provided for not adopting v6, and are any of them related to the v6
> policies regarding address space?
Reasons:
+ Fear
People simply fear deploying new technology to their
environment.
+ Uncertainty
The future is uncertain. Many people fail to realize that
IPv4's future
is even more uncertain than that of IPv6.
+ Doubt
You are not the only one expressing doubt in IPv6. The reality,
however, is that I think that LSN and a multi-layer NAT internet
are even more worthy of doubt than IPv6.
+ Inertia
Many people are approaching this like driving at night with the
headlights off. They refuse to alter course until they can see
the wall. There is a wall coming in two years whether you can
see it or not. If you have not begun to deploy IPv6 (changed
course), then there will soon come a point where the accident
has already occurred, even though you cannot yet see the
wall and have not yet made physical contact with it.
A classic example of this phenomenon would be a certain
large unsinkable ship where the captain chose to try and
make better time to New York rather than use a lower speed
to have time to avoid ice bergs. The ship never arrived in
New York and its name became an adjective to describe
large disasters.
Owen
