INET6 in world

[Terry Lambert]

Bernd Walter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:32:47PM +0200, Harti Brandt wrote:
> > What's the sense of enabling and using IPv6, if your infrastucture
> > in the company doesn't support it (because of the overhead with routing
> > (hardware vs. software routing)) and you don't have an IPv6 connection to
> > the outside world. Well, you could ping localhost per IPv6...
> 
> That's chicken/egg - IPv6 never will be widely used if everyone thinks
> that way.
> The sense is to break this dependency loop by ecouraging everyone to
> use it and not to make it easier to completely disable the support.
> As I said: you -always- have an IPv6 connection to the outside world
> as long as you have a single official IPv4 address.
> Not using it because it doesn't fit in your current network is one
> point, but disabling it in a way to make a future step to IPv6
> harder is another.
> The number of IPv4 only systems is already big enough - we don't need
> to build new ones.

The problem, as I see it, is that it doesn't come enabled by
default on Windows systems.  Until it does, it's never going
to get any traction.

I wouldn't be surprised if the government has asked Microsoft
to not deploy it, or to deploy it without encryption support,
given world events.

-- Terry