Conclusion
Axel Pawlik, Managing Director of the RIPE NCC
“Organisations need to put adoption and integration of IPv6 at the top of their technology agenda today. Staff need to be trained, management tools need to be enhanced, routers and operating systems must be updated and IPv6-enabled versions of applications must be deployed. All of these steps take time, and as IPv4 exhaustion looms ever closer, time will be the one luxury that late adopters no longer have.”
Axel Pawlik
With most estimates putting IPv4 exhaustion at best only two years away, it is clear that concerted action on IPv6 deployment is necessary to ensure the stability of the Internet and its continued growth. Failure to deploy IPv6 ahead of the exhaustion of IPv4 addresses is one of the biggest threats facing the Internet today.
Without the widespread adoption of IPv6 in the next two years, there is a very real threat to the integrity, stability and interoperability of the Internet. It is therefore vital that all Internet stakeholders, from governments and vendors to ISPs and telcos, work together to safeguard the growth and innovation that has made the Internet the success story that it has become.
Many early adopters have deployed IPv6 in their networks. For those who have not, there is the very real risk of escalating costs and of losing out to competitors who planned ahead and were able to deploy IPv6 strategically.
The time to act is now!
