I've mentioned this previously. Without government-mandated standards, implementation could take years. We apply this approach to numerous areas; why should IP be an exception?
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If you want the government to mandate standards, vote with your feet and move to China where it has been mandated.
I thought the point of the article is that perhaps IPv6 is ultimately unnecessary: worse is better?
Why are we engineers so attracted to authoritarianism? The idea of just telling everyone to use the new version seems attractive to me too. Then again I often deeply admire practical engineering compromises. (edited: clarified)
Forcing people to use it is authoritarianism.
In order to force IPv6 and ensure nobody is using IPv4, you absolutely are putting laws on what goes over those Ethernet frames.
Why do people immediately assume that any possible regulation will be the stupidest possible regulation? Corporate brainwashing?