> >Maybe reports of "the DNS is broken when you do go to pure IPv6" are > >more valuable than "you can only go to IPv6 if you jump through these > >hoops that only advanced Internet users can do". > > Is the IETF afraid to eat it's own food? > Or is it willing to do what's necessary (in the interim) to adjust to > the new cuisine? Our networking team at Microsoft did run an "IPv6 only" trial during the development of Windows Vista. Volunteers only. The volunteers would disable the IPv4 stacks on their PC, and then attempt to go on with their normal work, both for internal applications such as corporate mail, file servers, or intranet servers, and for external applications, mostly web based. It worked, but it had to rely on a set of transport proxies for those internal applications that were not yet IPv6 ready, and of course web proxies for internal access. -- Christian Huitema _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf