Vint Cerf Calls For IPv6 Incentives In UK 164
sweetpea23 writes "Vint Cerf, the 'godfather' of the web and Internet evangelist for Google, has highlighted the need for cash incentives to encourage ISPs and businesses in the UK to move to version six of the IP addressing scheme (IPv6). In response to the UK government's stance that its role in the transition will primarily be advisory, Cerf suggested a system of tax credits for upgrading equipment to v6 capability — similar to the 'cash for clunkers' scheme in the US. 'You'd have to do the math to see what impact it would have, but creating some business incentive might be helpful,' he said. His words echo those of Axel Pawlik, managing director of the RIPE NCC, who warned last month that that the IT industry is adding unnecessary risk and complexity to Internet architectures by ignoring the availability of IPv6 addresses. the Internet authority IANA is expected to assign its last batch of IPv4 addresses in June 2011."
God-father of the web (Score:3, Insightful)
I wonder if Berners-Lee cringes when he sees Cerf described as "the Godfather of the web" :-)
Re:carrot and stick (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:carrot and stick (Score:3, Insightful)
They should simply mandate that anyone providing internet connectivity (ie any isp or telco) MUST provide ipv6, either alongside or instead of ipv4.
If every end user and every site they try to visit is dual stack, a lot of traffic will occur over ipv6 without users even realising it and ipv4 will gradually die out.
Re:Reverse flock mentality (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:carrot and stick (Score:3, Insightful)
How is 1GB per month enough for anything except a few emails? Here in the real world we use streaming audio and video, download software updates, and buy games on Steam at 10GB a time. Get back to us when that costs less than £100 per month with Andrews & Arnold.
Re:God-father of the web (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Security? (Score:2, Insightful)
Doesn't adoption of IPv6 remove one of the more effective layers of security we have today, the obfuscation layer, being hidden behind the router?"
Please read Local Network Protection for IPv6 [RFC 4864 [ietf.org]].