[governance] Re: Warning over Net address limits

[Paul Wilson]

>> the Internet technical community's biggest failure.
>
> I fail to see why it's the *technical* community failure. Technically,
> IPv6 works and do so for a long time. Its non-deployment is purely the
> result of economical, financial and political decisions (or lack of),
> without any technical issue involved.

Absolutely.  It's like blaming the "scientific community" for global 
warming, because their solar panels and fuel cells haven't been taken up by 
industry and the community.

IPv6 has been deployable for years, but the business case hasn't existed, 
just as it hasn't existed for hybrid cars until recently. Meanwhile IPv4 
addresses keep getting allocated, and the earth gets hotter and hotter. 
I'm not defending that state of affairs (far from it) but it is the world 
we live in.

So we can take a lesson from the climate issue, which is that progress may 
rely, in the end, on demand at the consumer/grassroots level.   It's not 
that Governments don't have a role, but that the real missing link here is 
demand from Internet users to get IPv6 services from their providers.

If IPv6 has a problem, it is that there is no feature that will make any 
immediate difference to the users - on the contrary it is designed to 
behave exactly the same way as IPv4.  Then again a Prius drives like any 
other car, but people are starting to buy it...

Paul.

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Paul Wilson, Director-General, APNIC                      <dg at apnic.net>
http://www.apnic.net                            ph/fx +61 7 3858 3100/99

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