ICANN: IPv6 - Chicken And Egg Problem
Stakeholders involved in the transition to Internet protocol version 6, or IPv6, have "a chicken and egg problem," ICANN's Leo Vegoda said on Sunday. "There is little motivation or ROI [return-on-investment] for being an early deployer since there are few IPv6 peers to communicate with." Meanwhile, he senses increased interest in the platform, especially since the start of this year.
A couple of factors have informed his belief, he told attendees at an IPv6 tutorial. The first is the recognition that Internet addresses under the current regime (IPv4) will be exhausted soon, he said. Secondly, the U.S. government has required that all federal agencies have operational IPv6 networks by June 2008. A third element is the general availability of Microsoft's new Vista operating system, which is IPv6-enabled out of the box, Vegoda said.
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