On 8/31/05, Scott Ullrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From my experience the US Government does very poorly about dictating > emerging standards. >
yeah, not to mention I'd bet the chances of this actually happening on time at every agency are about one in a trillion. We could list thousands of examples... that's just the nature of any government. What will make the switch to IPv6 happen is when IPv4 addresses are so scarce that providers will have to start charging a substantial amount of money per IP. If a home user has to pay an extra $25/month or something for "one of them thar IPv4 addresses", they're going to do whatever they have to for getting IPv6 and avoiding that cost. The free market drives what happens. And with NAT, even though it's a kludge and has issues, we aren't going to run low on IP space for a long, long time. -cmb
