Regulatory enforcement by whom? Last I knew there wasn’t a world wide Internet regulatory body.
> On Sep 6, 2021, at 2:33 AM, Saku Ytti <s...@ytti.fi> wrote: > > On Sun, 5 Sept 2021 at 19:22, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote: > >> So where does that put us in a decade or two? Which protocol is >> optional? > > If we don't get regulatory enforcement or voluntary commitments to > sunset IPv4, we are doomed for dual-stack for the foreseeable future > (decades). > I absolutely HATE testing, developing and supporting IPv4+IPv6, more > than doubling my time, adding 3rd stack would actually not increase > cost that much, it's the 1=>2 which is fantastically expensive. And > costs are transferred to customers. > Those who have not done _anything_ with IPv6, have done the right > thing from business POV, they've had lowest cost, least issues and > have had other people pay for the improvements of the stack. And even > today, I see no business sense deploying IPv6. > > Now if we'd know, all of our CDN, cloudyshops and tier1 will start > dropping IPV4 at edge in 2040, this would create good business reason > to start developing to IPv6, you'd know you need to have it, and you'd > know you have finite window when you need to support both. > And this is something we should commit to do, and everyone would > benefit from the comment. > > -- > ++ytti
