Yes we all go to NANOG meetings and talk about these solutions but the change has to come from within. its not just a technical solution. There has to be motivation and incentive for people to make this change.
Zaid ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Timmins" <p...@telcodata.us> To: "Zaid Ali" <z...@zaidali.com> Cc: "Roger Marquis" <marq...@roble.com>, nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 10:22:16 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space Zaid Ali wrote: > I don't consider IPv6 a popularity contest. It's about the motivation and the > willingness to. Technical issues can be resolved if you and people around you > are motivated to do so. I think there are some hard facts that need to be > addressed when it comes to IPv6. Facts like > > 1. How do we migrate to a IPv6 stack on all servers and I am talking about > the > thousands of servers that exist on peoples network that run SaaS, > Financial/Banking systems. > Just upgrade your load balancer (or request a feature from your load balancer company) to map an external IPv6 address to a pool of IPv4 servers. Problem solved. > 2. How do we make old applications speak IPv6? There are some old back-end > systems > that run core functions for many businesses out there that don't really > have any > upgrade path and I don't think people are thinking about this. > Continue to run IPv4 internally for this application. There's no logical reason that IPv4 can't continue to coexist for decades. Heck, people still run IPX, right? -Paul
