RIPE NCC’s Manager of Public Policy and Internet Governance acknowledges the path to IPv6 dominance is not clear.
Users and devices on the Internet far exceed available IPv4 addresses so transitioning to IPv6, with its vast capacity, should be a no-brainer. But more than 20 years after its introduction as the successor Internet protocol to IPv4, IPv6 deployment continues to be sluggish and IPv4 remains a critical part of network infrastructure. RIPE NCC’s Manager of Public Policy and Internet Governance explains why the value proposition of IPv6 migration isn’t always compelling and that it is not enough to let IPv6 develop organically – not if the Internet is to remain a “free, global and unfragmented space.”
