http://news.com.com/2100-1033_3-5055803.html?tag=fd_lede2_hed
IPv6 will certainly solve any shortage of IP addresses for the forseeable future, but because the USA was allocated a major slice of IPv4 addresses in the original address distribution, it has not pressed this issue. As a result, despite concern, concerted effort to make a change of this magnitude [which will not be trivial] has not been forthcoming.
The supplementary benefits of IPv6, like greater security, are simply not sufficient to cause such a changeover in themselves. They may, however, become more salient if networking problems which can be allocated to IPv4 increase in severity.
Posted by jho at August 7, 2003 08:52 PM