Subj : IPv6 deham01 down (sixxs)
To   : Markus Reschke
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Sun Sep 25 2016 15:44:06

Hello Markus,

On Sunday September 25 2016 15:01, you wrote to Tony Langdon:

 TL>> True, it should have been done.

 MR> I think, the delay of deployment is mostly caused my the management
 MR> not seeing any benefit, i.e. business opportunity, for offering IPv6
 MR> at the moment.

Unfortunately this short term thinking is nothing new. In 1992 I was employed by a smaal company mailing microprocessor based control en measuring equipment for the industry.

On demand of a customer we had developed a piece of special measuring equipment for calibrating presuure sensors. I had been involved in de evloping the hardware and the software was all written by me.

One day, when I was still busy with it, my boss came breething down my neck and asked "what are you doing?". I said, "I am doing some final testes to make sure it will still work after 1 jan 2000". My boss asked "is it otherwise ready?" I trithfully answered "yes".

Whereupon my boss ordered me to drop the testing and ship it to the customer so that he could send an invoice. 2000, that is eight years from now he said. What happens then, is not a problem now. I tried to point out to him that /if/ there was an error that would make it perform less after 2000, it would be much more expensive to fix, then when I discovered the error now before it left the premises and fixed it, but he just would not listen.

I am sure many network engineers will have told management that shoving the introduction of IPv6 ahead, would only postpone the inevitable and would make it much more expensive and disruptive, the longer they wait. And they would have gotten the same "aprŠs nous le deluge" answers... :-(

 MR>  The deployment requires some investment, and if there's
 MR> no budget, network engineering can't do anything about that, besides
 MR> complaining. The management will notice the issue when the market
 MR> demands IPv6, i.e. when users have to deal with IPv6-only web servers
 MR> and services. Then everything has to be done in a very short time,
 MR> meaning a lot of stress, mistakes and additional costs. It's going to
 MR> be a rough ride for the ISP/carrier and the customer. A management,
 MR> which understands how the internet works, would have started a while
 MR> ago for a smooth deployment and lower costs. Some see just the revenue
 MR> of the next two quarters, others projecting strategies for several
 MR> years in advance.

The internet is too important a resource to leave all those decisons to "the market". Govenments should have played a more pro-active role in promoting IPv6. For example by making IPv6 a condition for getting an ISP license.


Cheers, Michiel

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