Re: Deployment vs the IPv6 community's ambivalence towards large providers

[Thomas Narten]

> On the other hand, some IPv6 advocates never stop beating the drums
> for IPv6 QoS, multi-homing, and so forth and how the Millennium will
> arrive with IPv6.  I think the truth in both cases is not so simple
> as either minor enhancment or dawning of a new age.

It is certainly regretful that there are some that go around touting
IPv6 as the solution to all problems. But if you listen carefully to
what many in the IPv6 community are saying, they are saying that IPv6
provides more addresses, and that that is *the* *main* *benefit*. The
other changes/benefits (simplified autoconfiguration, improved
mobility, tools to help with renumbering, etc.) while important, are
secondary.

> IPv6 is only rationally justified as a modest but necessary
> enhancement to IPv4,

I agree with this, and suspect that much of the core IPv6 community
does as well.

Thomas