Philip D'Ath wrote:
It's solving the looming problem of the IPv4 address pool being exhausted in the next 3 to 6 years.
Is not complete lack of Internet connectivity for new customers not a good enough reason?
Sadly v6 is at best only a partial solution. If v6 really allowed a customer to do all the things that a v4 address does then there would be no shortage of money and people deploying it. The only thing that I can think of that would drive widespread v6 deployment would be compelling content or services that are simply not available on v4. If you were a content or service provider would you keep your service v6 only? I think not. Lack of v4 addresses for new comers or those who can get (think buy) them will not drive v6 deployment. More likely it will drive ISP aggregation and address trading whether legal or otherwise. What is really needed here is a migration tool that will allow seamless deployment of v6. That's seamless in the sense that a user does not notice or care which type of address they get. I suspect there's a buck in it for anyone who can work that out. -- Robert Gray bob(a)brockhurst.co.nz