[arin-ppml] Effect of ARIN's Letters

[Fred Baker]

On Apr 30, 2009, at 4:30 PM, Steve Bertrand wrote:

> Tony Valenti wrote:
>
>> I'm still convinced that in order for IPV6 to be successful, the ISPs
>> like ComCast, Verizon, COX, and Qwest have to make the first move and
>> say "We're going IPV6 _ONLY_".
>
> You won't see any ISP's claiming to go v6-only for quite some time. I
> don't think that is feasible.

other than those that already have :-)

> IPv6 is the future of the public Internet, but we will transition into
> it, not switch to it. There are already successful transition  
> mechanisms
> in place, and new ones continuously being worked on.
>
> I'd recommend to you to enable v6 along side v4 on a few sites in a
> lab/pilot project, and go from there. During my transition, I kept a
> paper folder with milestones of each achievement in lab/pilot setups,
> and once I was satisfied, I turned things on in production. I have had
> no ill side-effects.

thanks. yes.