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Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK

Posted by timothy on from the there-would-be-this-thing-called-a-market dept.

sweetpea23 writes "Vint Cerf, the 'godfather' of the web and Internet evangelist for Google, has highlighted the need for cash incentives to encourage ISPs and businesses in the UK to move to version six of the IP addressing scheme (IPv6). In response to the UK government's stance that its role in the transition will primarily be advisory, Cerf suggested a system of tax credits for upgrading equipment to v6 capability — similar to the 'cash for clunkers' scheme in the US. 'You'd have to do the math to see what impact it would have, but creating some business incentive might be helpful,' he said. His words echo those of Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, who warned last month that that the IT industry is adding unnecessary risk and complexity to Internet architectures by ignoring the availability of IPv6 addresses. the Internet authority IANA is expected to assign its last batch of IPv4 addresses in June 2011."

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  1. God-father of the web by RPoet · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I wonder if Berners-Lee cringes when he sees Cerf described as "the Godfather of the web" :-)

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    1. Re:God-father of the web by TheRaven64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Probably not as much as Cerf cringes when he reads TBL described as 'the father of the Internet'.

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  2. Re:carrot and stick by metamatic · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Lots of government procurement already depends on your product being IPv6 capable. The problem is really the ISPs. I'm ready to switch on IPv6 tomorrow, but my ISP doesn't support it, so I'm stuck tunneling.

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  3. Re:carrot and stick by Bert64 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    They should simply mandate that anyone providing internet connectivity (ie any isp or telco) MUST provide ipv6, either alongside or instead of ipv4.
    If every end user and every site they try to visit is dual stack, a lot of traffic will occur over ipv6 without users even realising it and ipv4 will gradually die out.

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  4. Re:Reverse flock mentality by houstonbofh · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or, a bunch of overworked networked admins that don't want to start a big project for a problem they are not feeling yet... Switching over my office would take a lot of time I do not have for absolutely no payoff. And my 10-12 hour days are full already.

  5. Re:carrot and stick by lga · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How is 1GB per month enough for anything except a few emails? Here in the real world we use streaming audio and video, download software updates, and buy games on Steam at 10GB a time. Get back to us when that costs less than £100 per month with Andrews & Arnold.

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  6. Re:Security? by j+h+woodyatt · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Doesn't adoption of IPv6 remove one of the more effective layers of security we have today, the obfuscation layer, being hidden behind the router?"

    Please read Local Network Protection for IPv6 [RFC 4864].

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