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<br><div><div>On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:10 AM, Cameron Byrne <<a href="mailto:cb.list6@gmail.com">cb.list6@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><p>Yet another year goes by, and Skype still remains one of the most popular apps, and thus its ipv4 dependence blocks meaningful ipv6-only adoption. Skype is the poster child of ipv4 dependence. This engineering failure at Microsoft (owns Skype) pushes cost on to other actors in the internet ecosystem and is a market failure where a more costly and more cgn broken internet is the result. See the official tweet below stating no support.</p></blockquote></div><div>Yes, Skype's failure to support IPv6 *is* a major hurdle for many organizations and *is* the reason I've had multiple people tell me they can't move to an IPv6-only network (or even is just a blocker for them to even think about IPv6, i.e. "Skype doesn't work with IPv6 so why should we bother"). In truth, it is the primary reason why *I* can't move to using only IPv6 within my home network.</div><div><br></div><div>That said, I don't know precisely what can be done other than continue to express the need to Skype/Microsoft for IPv6 support and to make public statements about the desire for this. I've reached out to various contacts I have within Skype and received basically the same comment - that they know it is of interest but do not have a timeframe for IPv6 support. Hopefully now that the Microsoft acquisition is farther in the past this can perhaps be something they work on. We'll see.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Dan</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div>Dan York</div><div>Senior Content Strategist, Internet Society</div><div><a href="mailto:york@isoc.org">york@isoc.org</a> +1-802-735-1624 </div><div>Jabber: <a href="mailto:york@jabber.isoc.org">york@jabber.isoc.org</a> </div><div>Skype: danyork <a href="http://twitter.com/danyork">http://twitter.com/danyork</a></div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/">http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/</a></div></body></html>