IPv6 tranisition issues

[email protected] Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:04:07 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ngtrans
Message-ID <[email protected]>
This may be slightly OTT for this mailing-list. I am looking for good
paper/presentations from oponents of IPv6 transition (and perhaps the
IPv6 answers to these). We are planning to write a paper to form an IPv6
steering committee here in Malaysia and need to be prepared.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Some of the points I have noted and gathered:

+Network built on NAT is fine and there is no real need to look at IPv6.
+What is so special about IPv6 that I cannot patch and do with IPv4.
+Cannot see the immediate =91cost versus benefit=92 of implementing IPv6.
+Limited number of applications/hardware that are IPv6 enabled.
+Lack of educational material from service providers, equipment vendors, =
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and R&E institutions.
+Poor government/regulatory support and awareness.
+IPv6 is about 90% complete work still needed on PPP, DNS standards,
multicast/anycast, etc.
+Network renumbering, service disruption and other operational issues.
+Initial =91land-rush=92 for IPv4 address space has resulted in a slightl=
y
complacent outlook by US hardware/software developers.
+No 'Y2K flag-day' for IPv4 address exhaustion. Come on, are we really
running out of IPv4 addresses? 2^32 is quite a lot of addresses.

Best regards,
-nick/