[ipv6-wg] contents of ipv6-wg Digest, Vol 135, Issue 10

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 01:16:02PM +0100, Clodagh Durkan wrote:
> I am also really interested in this topic, really suspect it???s not broken
> for the most enterprises so why invest into what???s a whole new re
> architecture, skills in-house may also not exist.

If you have ever looked at (large) enterprise IPv4 networks, you know
that you do not need to "suspect".  It's broken beyond any imagination,
usually, with lots of internal NAT44, duplicate use of RFC1918 segments
("every kubernetes cluster has the same 10.x.0.0/16 subnet, because that's
how automated deploymet works - and besides, it's the only /16 available
out of 10/8!").

Going from there to IPv6 would bring immense benefits in the medium to
long term - but in the short term, it's "extra work!" and "nobody has
time!", and also "nobody cares, these are costs that people have become
used to" (and that's the worst bit of all).

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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