[ipv6-wg] Clear Guidance for Enterprises

On 6/1/23 15:06, Nick Hilliard wrote:
> Which government service would you suggest shutting down on ipv4?

I can't imagine any government to require anyone to support IPv6, one
particular protocol, explicitly, and even less to require anyone to shut
down still-working IPv4. If you can't even convince technical people to
migrate, how will you get majorities in a Parliament for this? This is
just not going to happen, hands down.

Although it may be a good thing in this particular case, I think
requiring usage of one particular technology by law (a protocol or
something else) is dangerous. Imaginge they made a law that required
companies to adopt IPv4 and shut down their X.25 or whatever they had
before. Maybe it would have been nice to have such a law in the 80s and
90s, but what about today? It's hard enough to get rid of a protocol
that's not required by law.

Companies just need to _feel_ that IPv4 isn't going to get them very far
anymore and that it's better to prepare for the future now because its
better to have options rather than to need them when the time has come.

-- 
Jordan A. Borgner