Reply to post: Re: IPV6 adoption.

China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards

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Re: IPV6 adoption.

Actually, the elephant in the room is that it's not users / consumers or management dragging their feet here.

The big pushback comes from the technical staff who really like the ability to have the whole address structure memorised and refuse point-blank to address destinations by their DNS name. You think users are hidebound luddites averse to change? We make them look like technical mayflies...

with thousands of switches, routers & servers to cater for there is no chance most of us will remember individual IP addresses.

it is important to know what vlans and their associated subnets stuff is in though, also point to point links need the smallest address pools possible so /64's are no use there /126's giving 2 useable addresses are used.

there are numerous other reasons why techies have not adopted ipv6, memorising IP's is most definitely not a reason for not using it.

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