On Sep 17, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Steve Crocker wrote:
There are hundreds of millions of IPv4 computers and perhaps
millions of individual IPv4 transport networks, large and small.
Here are some useful points along the way from pure IPv4 to pure IPv6.
A. Every new computer is able to talk IPv6
B. Every transport is able to talk IPv6, i.e. every network from
tier 1 ISPs down through wifi hot spots and every internal corporate
network
C. Every major service, e.g. Google, CNN, Amazon, is reachable via
IPv6
D. Every new computer is not able to talk IPv4
E. A substantial number of transports are unable to talk IPv4
F. A substantial number of major services are not directly
accessible via IPv4 (but, of course, will be accessible via gateways)
You've missed a couple of key points:
* IETF declares IPv4 historical
* IETF declares IPv6 a full standard
* IETF further reduces focus on IPv4 in new protocol work (perhaps
addressing it only through gateways?)
* IETF stops referencing IPv4 in new protocol work
* ... and probably a few more along these lines
These can arguably be done in several orders, and there's an open
question as to how they interleave with your points.
Remember that the IETF cannot directly influence your checkpoints. The
only ones we can really control are the ones that determine how the
IETF behaves.
To paraphrase my friend who is a psychotherapist: "We can't control
how the world feels about IPv6. At best, we can control how we feel
about it."
--
Dean Willis
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