Search for and Read First on Blinkist: Built to Last, Jim Collins and Jerry Porras
If you are a technology leader, especially in network engineering, are you still hopelessly rolling your eyes and bitterly avoiding IPv6 adoption? If so, will you be considering retirement or will you figure out how to change your mindset and contribute to something that is built to last 2MA (2-minute article)?
Question: When considering IPv6, does your team look in the mirror and see…
- ,,,a group of keep your head down geeks kicking the can down the road because IPv6 will never happen on your watch and is the next generation’s problem <or>…
- …an army of proactive and forward thinking professionals that see the architectural, NAT bottleneck, and compliance limitations of the “legacy IPv4 internet” and want to embrace the reality of IPv4 and IPv6 coexistence?
The Forks
Fork 1: You Are Head-Down Geeks. IPv6 global adoption & use exceeds 40% in 2022 with a ~4% year-over-year growth trend since 2018 indicating that IPv4 traffic will be “legacy” by 2025 (GTS). The time for IPv6 is now yet you foretell that problem is for the next generation. We appreciate where you are in your career and what you have done; we wish you the best of luck on your retirement.
Fork 2: You Are Innovative Technology Professionals. You have accepted the reality that we all must prepare for IPv6 adoption. You recognize that IPv6 adoption is increasing at a rate of 4% per year globally and want to prepare. You commonly hear myths from your coworkers who don’t understand networking that IPv6 should be disabled even though you understand that the scientists who architected the Internet are jumping up and down waving their hands screaming that you should adopt IPv6. You have the right mindset and have come to the best place to begin your IPv6 journey.
Simple Overarching Summary (SOS)
For the SOS, if you see IPv6 as hopeless tech that will not happen on your watch, your team is headed down Fork 1. If you see IPv6 adoption in a dual-stack environment as an opportunity to innovate by at least establishing dual-stack IPv6 at the fringe or both at the fringe and internally, you are headed down Fork 2.
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