The Seattle SAGE Group
IPv6 -- What's UP?
IPv6 - Obstacles To Deployment
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The IPv6 Deployment Group is a network of a world-wide network of researchers
and engineers that discuss on a daily basis the IPv6 technology practical steps
of the IPv6 implemetations. This board is co-chaired by Jim Bound (JB), senior
member of the technical staff at Compaq, and Perry E. Metzger.
Interviewed by Latif LADID (LL), President of the IPv6 Forum
LL: What do you consider the greatest obstacle to deploying IPv6 right
now?
JB: Let me just list some obstacles, not in any priority, that might be a
challenge for rapid deployment of IPv6:
- Lack of Host (server and client) and Router vendors shipping IPv6
integrated in their base product set. The ISPs cannot deploy IPv6 without
products. Vendors need to ship products.
- Entities unable to obtain a real IPv6 address from their providers or
ISPs, who in turn cannot get a real IPv6 address from any Internet Registry
today
- The stop-gap for the IPv4 address shortage is NAT which has been widely
deployed, until those users feel the pain of not being able to sustain the
needs for end-to-end networking (e.g. IPSec, VOIP, real-time video/audio,
multicast) they will continue to feel good about NAT.
- Many Enterprises have not heard the IPv6 story and do not know yet that a
solution is here for their intranet and their connection to the Internet which
will not require NAT. So lack of IPv6 "marketing" to real users who want new
solutions. The IPv6 story needs to be told with a marketing and business
message, not a technical message.
- The Year 2000 problem is the focus of many entities now and updating their
Networking Infrastructure will be next. Once the Y2K problem is resolved, more
attention units will be given to the YV4 problem space as one of my IETF
colleagues referenced it one time.