Google at IETF Meeting: IPv6 Deployment Was Easy and Inexpensive

Network World

Google engineers say it was not expensive and required only a small team of developers to enable all of the company's applications to support IPv6, a long-anticipated upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

"We can provide all Google services over IPv6," said Google network engineer Lorenzo Colitti during a panel discussion held here Tuesday at a meeting of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Colitti said a "small, core team" spent 18 months enabling IPv6…

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It just takes a little bit of Jeremy Hitchcock  –  Mar 29, 2009 12:18 PM PST

It just takes a little bit of focus.  You get IP space, connectivity, look for where your application consumes addresses and add in IPv6.  It's already been mentioned on CircleID but we have a plan going as many others do: http://dynamicnetworkservices.com/about-ipv6plan