The R&D was shady at best, since it doesn't support IPv4 is the first red flag that came up.

Re: Where eight network management vendors stand on IPv6.

Although Europe is way ahead than us here on the conversion, if the USA doesn't accept it with open arms, it will be an international failure.

I worked through the Y2K issues and due to our diligence, it came off without a hitch. This is not backwards compatible and most non-governmental organizations will not go through the grief nor the issues when the solution never covered the main issue: backward compatibility.

June 2008 will be interesting. We'll see if the carriers demand that their consumers upgrade to this with no real benefit and high cost or if the feds step in and mandate the change.

When will these organizations figure out that they can't push solutions down consumer's throats? Vista is a prime example, just try to buy an XP machine after Microsoft demands that you have to replace all of your hardware as well (after how many years of delays) ?

It's about time that us computer geeks and consumers tell the people who think they run the IT world that we won't take it anymore. We have the Yankee Enginuity to use Linux, come up with a translator from v4 to v6, and tell the big boys to sit on it since we don't need them anymnore. We pay their bills, and for what? Another Windows 95 or ME?

Maybe I'm wrong and I should just trust them. NOT ! Been burned by all of them before, Cisco, Microsoft, and most of them in-between.

Just my opinion but been doing this since 1983 with a Commodore. WAKE up people. They are not looking out for you nor me.

Gary Janssen