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Experts at odds over relevance of IPv6

A few years ago, Geoff and I wrote a book on Quality of Service. :-)

Needless to say, he and I see eye-to-eye on most issues involving the Internet...

Dahna McConnachie writes in ComputerWorld Australia:

A significant stumbling block to IPv6 adoption may be the IPv4 loyalists who are keen to keep the protocol in preference to the 'new improved' version.

Geoff Huston, senior Internet research scientist from Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (Apnic), belongs to the IPv4 camp.

"We happen to work in an industry that survives on complexity, address scarcity and insecurity," Geoff Huston, senior Internet research scientist at Apnic, said. "This is where the margins come from, and we are not innovators in this industry any more. We've learnt that optimism doesn't create a business case. All those people disappeared along with the dotcom boom," he said.

posted by Fergie @ 11/10/2005 01:15:00 PM