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Why I killed our IPv6 project
- Jonnax 9y agoIt's an interesting article but I'm a bit confused. What did they kill? The plan to IPv6 only? Because from what I see they're dual stacking their network and slowly transitioning.
- AndyMcConachie 9y agoFrom TFA: "After two months of analysis, I approached my boss and recommended we kill it, at least as an ‘IPv6 project’. It was reborn as a ‘clean up our network architecture, and oh, by the way, add IPv6 (and a bunch of other things)’." They just renamed it and moved away from calling it "The IPv6 Project" to reconceptualizing it as a network redesign with a clean slate based around IPv6.
- TorKlingberg 9y agoThe title is blatant click-bait. They didn't kill their IPv6 project at all. Ignoring that, I hope they actually finish their transition. All too often, an attempt to restructure a system to a new and clean design grinds to a halt halfway through, when it hits the "second 90%". Then you have a weird combination of the old and new structure. A few years later there's a fresh attempt, and now you have the new-new, the old-new and the old-old. It's like when a software repository has a carefully designed directory structure of many layers, plus one top-level directory called "legacy", where all the really important code is.