On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Systems have to work through all of that before they
> can start to do something useful.  That's a good reason not to
> switch to IPv6.

It's a tiny drop in the bucket compared to the advancements in
processor speed, network equipment capabilities, etc.

All network routing equipment worth its salt is doing this all in
hardware at line-speed anyway, so what does it matter?

> I don't think anyone is paying for IPv6 specific upgrades to hardware.
> When they upgrade for a practical reason, the hardware they get is
> more IPv6 capable than what they had.

That is just plain incorrect.