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Network World - How feds are dropping the ball on IPv6
Dave,
Was pleasantly surprised to see you and Mike Holliday mentioned in the Network World article mentioned above. I just attended the Network World Live Road show here in DC and the chairman of ARIN seemed to have an opposing view to the following statement that you made in NW.
"There's nothing that you can get with IPv6 that you can't get with IPv4 in terms of access to information or sites. It's not like you get a huge improvement in performance," Siegel says. "Who in their right mind would want to implement it? The answer is people on the cutting edge, like research institutions or ISPs that sell to research institutions."
His statements were the following:
1. Somewhere in 2010 the IP address space will run out as emerging markets grow.
2. His organization is telling ISP to make plans for IPv6 as there will be a day soon where ARIN will not be handing out more IPv4 space.
3. After #2 happens (no pun intended) there will be the beginnings of two Internets. One IPv4 and one IPv6. While all sites will be reachable with IPv4 clients at first there will come a time where there will be IPv6 only sites.
He did mention that there are ways to prolong the migration window such as large organizations giving back unused space. I doubt that this will happen without economic incentives.
Having looked into IPv6 for a long time I have to say that the training hurdles for most IT organizations are going to be the largest obstacle in the way of large scale adoption....
It would be my hope that IPv4+ could be created before the road to IPv6 where the IPv4 address you were assigned by your provider or ARIN if you are an ISP would be prepended with an organization code.
1234567890:10.10.10.10
It would appear that this would save the networking community some headaches.
But what about mobility, built-in security and the like. I like you believe that IPv4 and IPv6 both present the same issues as IPv4 ripped off anything worth having from IPv6 and now we are left with seemingly limitless address space.
Anyway...Later...Don't be a stranger.
Rich