> Further entrenches the big players by making it harder to enter the market.
On the contrary, I think dual stack from the ground up is cheap. Big corps are reluctant to switch because it means paying the "interest" in their tech debt.
> Making decisions for companies with no understanding of the costs is a bad strategy. If it was easy to support they'd just do it.
Who said we don't understand the costs? You are underestimating the stringiness of the bean counters that got us into this coordination failure. You are also assuming the aggregate demand for abstract public goods like IPv6 availability could ever be sufficient in already-developed countries for market-based solutions to work.
> It is still arguable if IPv6 is even necessary. I think yes, but the situation isn't clear enough to legislate. Maybe some better solution will be found when the pressure is on.
IPv6 is necessary for a bunch of decentralization to work better. Thks isn't good for profits (no, "crypto" isn't the decentralization I have in mind), but it is good for society. This is clear to me, but the exact sort of abstract thing which is hard to put political weight behind.
> Further entrenches the big players by making it harder to enter the market.
On the contrary, I think dual stack from the ground up is cheap. Big corps are reluctant to switch because it means paying the "interest" in their tech debt.
> Making decisions for companies with no understanding of the costs is a bad strategy. If it was easy to support they'd just do it.
Who said we don't understand the costs? You are underestimating the stringiness of the bean counters that got us into this coordination failure. You are also assuming the aggregate demand for abstract public goods like IPv6 availability could ever be sufficient in already-developed countries for market-based solutions to work.
> It is still arguable if IPv6 is even necessary. I think yes, but the situation isn't clear enough to legislate. Maybe some better solution will be found when the pressure is on.
IPv6 is necessary for a bunch of decentralization to work better. Thks isn't good for profits (no, "crypto" isn't the decentralization I have in mind), but it is good for society. This is clear to me, but the exact sort of abstract thing which is hard to put political weight behind.