IPv6 Still Hotly Debated 639
inkslinger77 writes "A significant stumbling block to IPv6 adoption may be IPv4 loyalists who are keen to keep the old protocol in preference to the 'new improved' version, according to a Computerworld Australia article. The article covers the views of Cisco's senior technical leader for IPv6 technologies, Tony Hain and Geoff Huston, a senior Internet research scientist from Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (Apnic)." From the article: "Go to your favourite venture capitalist and say 'I want to be an ISP'. By the time he stops laughing and [finds you want to run] IPv6 - the discussion gets terminated. No one wants to hear this. IPv6 is well ahead of adoption in this market so everyone is deferring. No one is running IPv6, because there is no business case for it ... if we really wanted to leave a legacy to our children we'd review the crap we have today which is pretty ghastly ..."
What's in a name? (Score:2, Funny)
Maybe it will be IPv7 by the time it's adopted.
Better yet, why not name it IPv2005, so everyone will have to take it up by the end of the year lest they be left behind? Sure sounds better than IPvXP or IPvVista, doesn't it?
I'm still waiting... (Score:1, Funny)
The IPv4 scarcity issue is a myth (Score:5, Funny)
Why doesn't Slashdot support it yet? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Me too (Score:2, Funny)
Legacy? Lol! (Score:2, Funny)
So get this... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Me too (Score:3, Funny)
IPv6 never caught on? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Why doesn't Slashdot support it yet? (Score:5, Funny)