[ipv6-wg] Clear Guidance for Enterprises

On 6/3/23 12:33, Gert Doering wrote:
> So, what else can we do?

At the end a number of factors that make up the big picture must play
together to roll that stone up the hill, and all of them influence one
another, at least a bit. Compatibility to other networks, amount of
work to maintain the own network, demand on IPv6 products, better
offers of IPv6 products etc, you called it.

Making IPv4 expensive is one good step. An official renaming of IPv4
to "Legacy IP" or "IP Legacy", at least by the vendors, might be a good
psychological trick.

What's very important too is to get the application developers on board.
Advances in the software that uses the network (and gives it its reason
to exist) is a crucial factor I think. If there are technical benefits
that can be achieved using IPv6 but not Legacy IP (too tired to think of
some now), you may feel a difference between IPv6 and Legacy IP at some
point and the latter may become outpaced. So developers need to be
convinced too. And taught about it.

-- 
Jordan A. Borgner