Fwd: Biggest mistake for IPv6: It's not backwards compatible, developers admit

[Nick Hilliard]

On 30/03/2009 17:49, Udo Steinegger wrote:
>> all the arguments to this discussion are well and fine.
>> But for the commercial non-ISP world, at least in old Europe, one of
>> the bigger Problems is to get
>> the same level of provider independence in IPv6 (read: PI address
>> space), that they are used to in the IPv4 world.
>>
>> As long as this is not properly addressed, then people are very
>> reluctant to move towards IPv6

Indeed, and this should be sorted on April 13:

http://www.ripe.net/ripe/policies/proposals/2006-01.html

>> and stick with
>> IPv4 until the last day.

This is an entirely different issue.

Nick