IPv6 at the 2008 Olympics
by David Sudjiman ~ May 8th, 2008. Filed under: Blogroll.In my previous post I threw out a few thoughts about the idea of enticing users to switch to IPv6 – a sort of variation on the long-running “we need an IPv6 killer app” argument – and the contradictions such enticement efforts would present: Mainly that IP of any version should be transparent to end-users who only care about services, not how those services are delivered. Any enticements bring IPv6 into the spotlight, where it should not be (except for routing and infrastructure geeks like me).
Looking at the other side of this transparency issue, just getting IPv6 rolled out brings unwanted attention to it: Users might have to upgrade operating systems, and might encounter problems reaching some destinations and services as the public Internet becomes split between an IPv4 world and an IPv6 world.
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