RE: IPv6 push doesn't have much pull in U.S

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:slight_smile:

True, but, there's actually another angle to consider.

If there is pressure to adopt IPv6 rapidly in a given region, and that
given region also happens to drive broadband technology evolution, and
North America ends up being dependent on cheap equipment primarily
driven by overseas standards.. It is conceivable that North America will
have a substantial economic argument for adopting IPv6 on the trailing
edge, maybe just past the leading edge if you have additional factors
playing into the decision.

Or one may just be oblivious to the emergence of IPv6 like it has been
to up to this point, and sustain that without any harm whatsoever.

The key questions are

  When will who you want to talk to speak IPv6?
  When will we have a need (and be willing to pay for) addressing
every device individually and directly without intermediary?
  When will we have a need (and be willing to pay for) pervasive
crypto & "identity"?

Each person/carrier/user/whatever will answer these differently, and it
has a lot to do with how you work, who you do business with, and what
economic pressures may apply, and whether or not you can cope with an
intermediary or non-native setup. There is no globally correct answer.

Or that's at least my view. Flame away.

Thanks,
Christian

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If there is pressure to adopt IPv6 rapidly in a given region, and that
given region also happens to drive broadband technology evolution, and
North America ends up being dependent on cheap equipment primarily
driven by overseas standards..

I don't see this. For instance, the need for non-ASCII characters in (for instance) Asian languages has pushed Unicode. Modern systems in NA are all capable of using Unicode. But do users in NA actually _use_ Unicode? ASCII works fine for them 99% of the time.

Same thing with IPv6. Windows and MacOS have had IPv6 on board for years. Doesn't mean people use it.

The key questions are

    When will who you want to talk to speak IPv6?

That's a key question when you've made up your mind to be one of the last to adopt IPv6. The real key question is: when will it start to make sense to use IPv6 for my own stuff, regardless of what the rest of the world does? In an enterprise environment the ease of never again having to think about how many hosts are going to end up in the same subnet alone may be quite compelling. But it only makes sense when you can turn off IPv4 in most of the network and proxy or translate communications to the outside.