Ulmo
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2 edits | reply to Kearnstd
Re: Look for this to be a very slow process
said by Kearnstd  :if IPv6 doesnt have a route to enhance the bottom line US ISPs wont do it. Interesting point. Probably a phase out situation will occur: at some point, if IPv6 goes forward (all the techno stuff is basically at a point that it could), then the system will hybridize. After that, IPv4 won't look that bad, since it will still work as a backward compatible situation. Eventually, all equipment would be made to work well with IPv6, since so many would require it at some point. Then, IPv4 will still be OK. But then it will just slowly fade away in that scenario. Then, at some point, the administration of "old outdated IPv4" stuff will become a sort of burden, and it will be phased out at that point. MIT-MC and MIT-AI would need reprogramming to work right. (They were already decommissioned.) I don't know how long all of those steps would take. Very few people are rushing it.
Small P.S.: Sonic.net ISP internal backbone is IPv6-IPv4 hybrid native, from what I understand, although I'm sure some clarification could be made about those points. |
