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Sale of IPv4 Addresses Hindering IPv6 Adoption
hal9000(jr) writes "While IPv6 day was a successful marketing campaign, is anyone really moving to IPv6? On World Launch Day, Arbor Networks noted a peak of only .2% of IPv6 network traffic. It appears that IPv4 addresses are still valuable and are driving hosting acquisitions. Windows 8 will actually prefer IPv6 over IPv4. If you want IPv6, here's what to do about it."
Scan your network topology from anywhere in the world?
See also: stateful firewall. NAT is not a firewall.
There are still vast ranges of unused addresses that have not been monetized, so there's no incentive to change. The cost of conversion is higher than the cost of addresses, therefore we will keep using them and developing software that doesn't support IPv6 until costs escalate.
Beyond this, how many of your ISPs offer native IPv6? This will be a prerequisite to widespread consumer adoption.
Not true. Linux has a NAT implementation for IPv6 already. There's nothing about IPv6 that inherently prevents NAT. It just isn't necessary in nearly as many places.
Probably because in practice, encapsulation is "good enough".
Only if you aren't using NAT. Besides, with service discovery and SLAAC, chances are you won't have to reconfigure anything anyway.
No more so than any other piece of OS-level code.
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Each and every one of you reading this is a customer of service providers and equipment vendors. It's time to use your voice and demand an IPv6 migration strategy that you can plan on.
On my walk in to work, there is this beautiful historic stone fence with cobblestone walk way for about a 2 block stretch... and demanding an IPv6 migration strategy I can plan on from it would likely be a better use of my time...
The article does nail the obvious problem on the head... the fact that IPv6 offers no benefit anyone cares about (we've learned to work with nat and even come to love it) except a solution to a problem that hasn't actually hit yet. Thing is this is the easy part. We all _know_ why IPv6 isn't being adopted. The hard part is how do we change that.. and "call up your ISP" is a really silly answer.