On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:52 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
Some considered that part of the delay of the IPv6 deployment was
due to the lack of communication effort from IETF. I'm not really
sure about that, however I agree that everything helps, of course.
To be honest, I think IPv6 has been overmarketed.
Let me ask you a question. When do you buy a new car? If you're at all
like me, you buy a new car when the old one isn't serving your needs
any more. Since buying a new car is a big expense, you put it off as
long as you can.
IPv6 solves a problem service providers will have in 1-2 years. We
knew a decade ago that it would be 1-2 years from now, but with less
precision. A decade ago, the problem it solves wasn't one the service
providers had, so investing in the technology only made sense from a
research or early-adopter perspective. Everyone else put the
investment off.
But IPv6 was heavily marketed. That leaves people saying, now that the
problem is materializing, "yeah, yeah, yeah, been hearing about that
for years."
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