[discuss] Report from the BR meeting local organizing group - Dec 2013

[Brian E Carpenter]

On 25/12/2013 09:56, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <52B9EA29.4010805 at arminco.com>, at 00:10:17 on Wed, 25 Dec
> 2013, Grigori Saghyan <gregor at arminco.com> writes
>> Let us remember Y2000 problem. Looks IPv4-->IPv6 transition problem is
>> from the same range.
> 
> The difference (in the UK at least) was that the government engaged very
> well with the Internet and IT industry to ensure that the issues were
> both addressed before the event, and any fallout "on the day" was
> planned to be dealt with. I was one of those who stayed up all night,
> having been allowed only peripherally involvement in any parties, to
> handle anything that arose according to a plan that had been worked on
> for months.
> 
> IPv6 deployment does not having anything like as much as a hard deadline
> to deal with.

No. It is happening at a natural rate, as operators and content providers
see the need arising. Since there is no prospect of the supply of IPv6
addresses running out for the next few centuries, there is no issue
specific to IPv6 that calls for a governance discussion.

   Brian