On 7/15/15, 11:57 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Matthew Kaufman" <nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of matt...@matthew.at> wrote: > >Go to any business with hardware that is 3-5 years old in its IT >infrastructure and devices ranging from PCs running XP to the random >consumer gear people bring in (cameras, printers, tablets, etc.) and see >how easy it is to get everything talking on an IPv6-only (no IPv4 at >all) network... including using IPv6 to do automatic updates and all the >other pieces that need to work. We're nowhere near ready for that.
This is painfully true. I don¹t have much sympathy for Windows XP, since it¹s a year past extended End of Support, and it¹s a 15-year-old operating system, now five generations obsolete? But specific-purpose consumer electronics are failures: not just cameras, but game consoles, set-top boxes, audio-video systems. Even security critical stuff like software updates, anti-virus updates, CRL checks, are almost completely unavailable over IPv6. Unless you run a large enough enterprise to have your own update servers; then they can pull updates over IPv4, and serve clients over IPv6. However, if you dual-stack now, you¹ll be able to identify which things are still dependent on IPv4, and either engineer differently, or substitute equipment over time. Lee > >Matthew Kaufman > >
