[agsamek]

My story about ipv6 is from a travel. I connected to a friend's wifi. It worked for some time and then a strange thing happened. I was able to google but I was not able to connect to my company's services. I debugged the cause and it looked like the router received ipv6 address but not an ipv4. There was some tornado going around that might something to it.

This was the first time I felt like being on the ipv6 network. I also wonder why I was not able to access to ipv4 servers, I assume that in India people have no problem accessing ipv4 only networks.

Anyway - this was the first time I had to deal with ipv6 :)

On the business side. One ipv4 costs us $3/mo. We never had any problem with this, didn't feel any business reason to upgrade and in particular we (as most of the companies) do not have any permanent test of ipv6 connectivity going on. So even if this had been setup at some point, we would never notice a regression here.

So - unless our customers started asking for ipv6, government pushed some regulation or the address' prise would go up - I do not think we will do anything about ipv6, like most other companies.

[mike_hock]

The prices will go up due to scarcity.

The $3 are an early warning signal. You can start upgrading slowly on the cheap when you have all the time in the world, or you can do it for much more money and higher risks come crunch time, when you "see a business reason."

I don't have an axe to grind with IPv6 in particular, but I wish managers who consistently make short-sighted management decisions when the writing is so obviously on the wall, would face unemployment.

[jeroenhd]

Generally, IPv6-first networks use shared IPv4 addresses for connectivity to legacy servers. Think CG-NAT but slightly more optimised.

I don't know why a tornado would only knock out IPv4, seems to me that the prefix administration for IPv6 should run on the same location as the DHCP administration for IPv4.

I would've switched most of my systems over to IPv6 by now if it wasn't for my workplace using Ubiquity hardware that still lacks IPv6 hardware acceleration, forcing the admins to disable it or face unnecessary network slowdowns. I like to be able to use my password manager and such on their WiFi just in case.

Indian regulation forcing IPv6 availability may lead to limited IPv4 availability in one of the biggest developing economies in the world, which may lead to business reasons for switching over. I can only hope, we've been stuck with IPv4 for way too long.