It is very encouraging to see the European Commission push for more IPv6 deployment activity. The story in the UK’s ITPro magazine focuses on comments made by Detlef Eckert at a recent conference in Madrid.
The inevitability of IPv6 means that businesses should switch now and avoid the costs and complexities of a last-minute migration, the EC has said.
Detlef Eckert, director general for information and society at the European Commission, was speaking about the challenges and opportunities that IPv6 held at the ISSE conference in Madrid.
In a call that echoed an EC statement from May, Eckert said that if businesses leave it late to implement IPv6 then they won’t have an opportunity to iron out technical issues and security vulnerabilities. It will also cost companies more money if they switch late.
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“Despite being available for ten years with a lot of talk and a lot of money spent, nobody is doing anything,” he said.
“Because our engineers have done such a good job to bring features designed for IPv6 to IPv4, the incentive to employ IPv6 is not immediately visible.”
In my opinion, we need to see more of these types of comments from governments, helping business and individuals recognize the need to understand and deploy IPv6.