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.