I always wondered how the world would be today if we layman market of
users and operators now had to remember their IPv6 number as we easily
can do today with #.#.#.# format and also perhaps privately publish it
for their customers. The assumption that every public IP has a public
domain associated is not always the case. It seems that this would be
a tuned out ergonomic factor with IP6.
Randy Bush wrote:
uh, i hate to spoil your fantasy. but large ipv4 deployments want an
absolutely minimal, compatible, feature-match upgrade to ipv6.
Yes of course. Isn't that what straight dual stack deployment is
meant to provide? (I don't mean that it does provide it perfectly,
but that is the goal of straight dual stack and countless people
have reported that dual stack just works.)
The flexibility comes after that.
it's been fifteen years. i guess the wonderful flexibility will come
in another decade or two. btw, i hope it works through massive ipv4
natting, because that is what you religious ipv6 high priests have
given us.
What we are seeing in the last few years is a search for coexistence
mechanisms for operators who are facing up to IPv4 exhaustion without
having rolled out IPv6 in time. That's not a failure of the IETF;
actually it's the IETF responding to operators.
it is an abject failure of the ietf. they did not roll it out because
they thought they were in business, not in religion. and ipv6's
incompatibility and the high cost of its kinkiness made no business
sense.
randy