Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of the Ipocalypse, I will fear no lack of IPv4 addresses: For, IPv6, thou art with me ...
As I sit here amongst a bunch of IPv6 colleagues, pondering the future of the capital-I Internet, a few not-so-random thoughts occur to me.
First: If "World IPv6 Day" (June 8th, UTC - meaning it started about the time this post dropped) has come and gone, and you didn't much notice, that is actually a Good Thing. That confirms that IPv6 being publicly resolvable didn't muck up your Internet experience. (That, in turn, means one of two things: Either you have good IPv6 connectivity (kudos!) or you have no IPv6 connectivity (boo!)).
Secondly: In some ways, this "test" is a major milestone in the evolution and deployment of IPv6.
* If it is a resounding success perhaps some content providers will even leave their IPv6 configurations/reachability in place, resulting in more good content being IPv6 reachable - win!
* If it is a failure, of any non-catastrophic magnitude, that is still a win - we will have better data upon which to base the needed fixes on.
* If things truly go south (which I find rather unlikely, but ask me again in 24 hours) then we - as an industry, as a community - have a lot of work to do!
Regardless of these specific results, it is also worth noting that some forward-thinking organizations have enough faith in IPv6 that their public presence is IPv6 enabled, all the time. If you want to talk to us about that, or about helping you get to that same "dual-stack" nirvana, or just interested in knowing more about IPv6, you can reach us at contact@nephos6.com ...
In the meantime, here's to a very meaningful (but eventless) next 24 hours!
/TJ
/TJ
IPV6 world has come and gone looks like everything went well
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