IPv6 if often represented or compared to the millennium bug which is not fair. There is no hard count down date to take off and there is no take off. I’m pointing at the fact there is no big bang of working or brokenness.

The reference to Chine or other asian countries is also false. Newly starters in Europe will also have issues getting addresses and traveling people already have issues. For instance people that visit Japan will have a big chance to get an Ipv6 address in internet cafe’s or on wifi.

When they need to visit their email hosted in IPv4 world, they have an issue. You could argue about tunnels, but they would have to be provided by the local ISP and there are hardly standards about tunnels. Dis-regarding the problems/ issues with IPv6 / IPv4 tunnels.

It often sounds very often as a “far from our bed” show (Dutch frase) but it isnt. On the other side it’s not all that complicated and expensive. A few basic rules:

1) Keep IPv6 in mind when purchasing / designing new infrastructure
2) IPv6 is mostly about internet exposure. Make your webservers, firewalls, mailserver, voip server IPv6 ready and you’re on the safe side.

Don’t mind about the end-user. IPv6 transition will be a dualstack option for at least 10 to 15 years. You gradually move over in percentage (client side).

If you think it’s not happening at the moment, google for it. The big players (google, amakay, facebook, big US providers) are all ready for it and have been for years but did not publically give much rumor to it. In the Netherlands UPC will start rolling out in 2011.