Owen DeLong via NANOG wrote:
There are real issues with dual-stack, as this thread started out with. I don't think there is a need neither to invent IPv6 problems, nor to promote IPv6 advantages. What we need is a way out of dual-stack-hell. I don’t disagree, but a reversion to IPv4-only certainly won’t do it.
For everyone who does have enough IPv4 addresses, it does. This is the problem in a nutshell. If that starts trending, IPv6 is done.
I think the only way out is through.
I hope not, both for IPv6 sake and for the network users. We dont know how much longer the goal will take, there is materializing a real possibility we will never quite reach it, and the potholes on the way are pretty rough. And as the trip winds on, the landscape is changing, not necessarily for the better. One more "any decade now" and another IPv4 replacement/extension might just happen on the scene and catch on, rendering IPv6 the most wasteful global technical debacle to date.
Unfortunately, the IPv6 resistant forces are making that hard for everyone else.
Owen
You say that as if it was a surprise, when it should not have been, and you say that as if something can be done about it, which we should know by now cannot be the primary focus, since it cannot be done in any timely fashion. If at all. Its time to throw mud on the wall and see what sticks. Dual stack and wait is an ongoing failure slouching to disaster. Joe