IPv6 tranisition issues
[email protected] Thu, 26 Dec 2002 17:04:07 +0800
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.ngtrans |
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| 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, = =20 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/