IPv6 Deployment: Religion and Reality

Someone left the following comment on one of my blog posts a few days ago:

IPv6 to a network engineer is like Communism to a Marxist. It would come in such a distant future that it would be in a form we can barely picture accurately. […] So my money is on NAT444, at least in the US.

Meanwhile on planet Earth (in 2014):

We’re getting close to the point where content providers ignoring IPv6 will get penalized, and some engineers are bound to face the five stages of IPv6 grief. Do keep in mind that a proper IPv6 deployment takes anywhere from 6 months to 3 years.

How Do I Get Started?

I created numerous IPv6 webinars to help you design and deploy IPv6 in your network, and if you’re looking for free resources, you’ll find plenty of them on the Internet:

5 comments:

  1. Somebody who gets paid real money left that comment only few days ago? That idiot should be fired immediately
  2. There are a *lot* of networking engineers out there who don't understand IPv6, don't want to understand IPv6 and are really digging their heels in.

    We need a truly great IPv6 only app or service to really drive adoption,
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    1. P2P SIP.

      Doesn't exist at all though, despite how flamingly obvious it is.

      In every client I've looked at, when support is advertised at all it turns out to be either fictitious, or IPv4-only. This despite the ugly latency problems that going through a registrar introduces.

      I find it more than a little suspicious, really. There seems to be absolutely phenomenal resistance on the part of client developers to doing SIP without a registrar, even though the not-inconsiderable bandwidth the registrars consume generally gets paid for either out of their own pockets or those of their sponsors. Just who the hell goes that far out of their way to insist that strangers take their money, whether they want to or not?

      Nobody, that's who.

      So I'm forced to consider that maybe there's something more going on here than meets the eye. It's not too hard to guess at it, either. Who would want to get in the middle of all those conversations? Who is known to have compromised SIP's biggest proprietary rival, Skype? Yeah.
  3. Ivan and others. I think you misunderstood my comment. My point wasn't that IPv6 deployment would not be expanded as time goes on. It was about the form which it would take. Few are certain of the eventual winning style of deployment (dual stack, tunneling, various forms of NAT).
    Notice my communism analogy. Marxists (and Ivan's native Yugoslavia has a few prominent ones) are quite certain of its eventual arrival, but are hesitant to predict it in its details.
    To be honest, I was merely parroting my teacher who said that a few months ago. He said that IPv6 will probably not become dominant in the US.
  4. I was told when I was building networks for the Military in the 90s that v6 was a mandatory project with a deadline of 2008. :) Long since passed and probably isn't doing barely any.
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