AW: [governance] IPv4 - IPv6 incompatiblity (was Re: Towards Singapore)

[Roland Perry]

In message 
<2DA93620FC07494C926D60C8E3C2F1A8D2C101 at server1.medienkomm.uni-halle.de>, 
at 09:43:32 on Fri, 17 Jun 2011, "Kleinwächter, Wolfgang" 
<wolfgang.kleinwaechter at medienkomm.uni-halle.de> writes

>BTW, does somebody remember Y2K?

Very much so. And it didn't turn into a disaster precisely because of 
the amount of work which was done, including replacing or updating many 
legacy systems, and giving many areas of operation a much needed "spring 
clean".

As a bonus it caused many organisations to "upgrade" from mini/mainframe 
based systems to PC-based systems, and put in place mechanisms for 
co-operation which are still used to this day in the field of large 
outages and civil emergencies.

There is a danger that as time passes it becomes seen as "crying wolf" 
in away which would reflect badly upon IPv6 evangelism, and such 
suggestions should be strongly resisted.

As for analogies regarding the parallel working of IPv4 and IPv6, I 
prefer to think about 3G phones versus GSM (the scarce resource being 
spectrum rather than number-space). Now that the technology for 3G 
handsets has settled down (in the early days they had very poor battery 
life) it's entirely possible to make a call and not even know that you 
are using 3G rather than GSM, and the 'end to end' principle of voice 
telecoms has been maintained despite there being a complete new parallel 
infrastructure.
-- 
Roland Perry
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