[ipv6-wg] Website Launch: www.IPv6ActNow.org

On 20-May-2009, at 08:32, Paul Rendek wrote:

> www.IPv6ActNow.org is a one stop website that explains IPv6 in terms  
> that everyone can understand and provides a variety of useful  
> information aimed at promoting the global adoption of IPv6.

That web page looks very nice and shiny, although I'm slightly bemused  
by the scrum of people on the right, and wonder whether the people at  
the front are enjoying themselves. Is the moral of that picture that  
early adopters can expect to get injured? :-)

One question, though, directed at this list and not at the editors of  
that web page. The text on the front door talks about IPv6 being the  
successor to IPv4, and about it being time to move on.

To me, there's an implication here that we're talking about a  
transition from IPv4 to IPv6, which (again, to me) implies that  
there's a vision of IPv6 being the overwhelmingly dominant protocol on  
the Internet with IPv4 marginalised (e.g.) like DECNET and IPX in 2009.

Does anybody here expect this to happen in their lifetimes?

Or do people imagine that IPv4 is so entrenched that it will never  
really go away, regardless of the growth in IPv6 deployment?

Just curious, really. There's a slight operational base for the  
question, which is that a transition implies IPv6-only nodes, whereas  
an entrenched IPv4 Internet means we'll be dual-stack for ever.


Joe