Comment by api
It's obvious that a major reason more people don't do this is a lack of instant payoff.
It's obvious that a major reason more people don't do this is a lack of instant payoff.
Same applies for directory services, configuration management, etc. Eating vegetables
I don't know you as well as I should :) I should say I'm not that interested in selling something that is both free and 'politically' loaded.
People have made up their minds, they'll pick it up or they won't. No "skin off my teeth" at all. Implementation details matter to those who care. They have their reasons, I'm not one to question them.
One of the things I like about v6 is it allows us to give up the charade or vanity of addressing. At least minify it. One can define classes of networks and simply identify hosts by MAC (or FQDN assuming an AAAA record).
I already have to tote that information around to configure them. Having a v4 address can be seen as duplicating the role of identity, while risking conflict. Outright removal of v4 may offer benefits in some scenarios.
Now... 'conflict' is how BGP anycast literally works. Two or more hosts announce the same location. There are perfectly valid reasons to still use v4, neither precludes the other.
Indeed, but also not everyone gets the payoff that GP did. We did IPv6 only and abandoned it after a while because there were some show-stoppers in our cloud provider that didn't work (at the time, this was a few years ago). It ended up being a good investment in the two people spearheading the work, but otherwise was a waste of time/money.