IPv6 Readiness Report

MythoBeast writes "In the latest episode of the Intellectual Icebergs podcast, Brett Thorson of Ravenwing provides a very good review of how ready our industry is for IPv6. He also provides a pretty good implementation guide for those who want to set up IPv6 at home."

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Today's Internet should be trivial.

[jd]

Most home users use DSL or cable modems and the ISPs would be quite capable of pushing new firmware to those to become IPv4/IPv6 gateways. You can then convert the entire "real" Internet to IPv6 without home users ever having to lift a finger.

Once that's been done, it's just a case of those same ISPs offering a CD to accelerate Internet usage (ie: which use native IPv6 rather than the gateway) and conversion is complete. Complete conversion of the Internet, by converting each ring in turn transparently to all outside layers, should be possible over the course of a few months at most. A solid concerted effort could probably achieve everything up to the end-user level in a matter of weeks, without a single person realizing what was happening.

Of course, I don't seriously expect that to happen. Not because it can't, but because the level of cooperation needed is likely beyond most businesses today. It's purely a political problem, not a technological one.