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)
For example:
- require support for ipv6 in order to qualify for government grants to ISPs to build or expand
- Require ipv6 support from any SaaS sold to the government
- require government websites to be served on ipv6, possibly exclusively on ipv6 by a certain deadline, although that might be too aggressive.
- grant tax exemptions on costs to upgrade equipment to support ipv6
- levy a tax on ipv4
None of those removes your freedom to use ipv4, they just provide incentives to use ipv6.