On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Christopher L. Morrow <christopher.morrow@mci.com> said:
agreed, it's a measured engineered decision hopefully. backed by financial and prudent engineering decisions. that wasn't the tone of the orignial comment though, which was: "Yea, I told them to just do it" which is tantamount to 'forklift your network you dummies'.
For some equipment, it still works out to "forklift your network". For example, our current dialup gear doesn't support IPv6 (and AFAIK no upgrades are available or planned to add it). There's no reason for us to replace our dialup gear; the only thing that fails on it is fans (and we can replace those easily enough with an hour's work of chassis dis/re-assembly). Dialup isn't going to go away in the near future either.
i suspect there is quite a large amount of gear (type not weight) that will never see v6 through the vendors but still support customers... speedstream anyone? cable-modem anyone? :( there are LOTS of things out there that don't know from v6 :( Thanks for another example though :)