New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

Thu Apr 1 01:05:49 UTC 2010

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Michael Dillon
<wavetossed at googlemail.com> wrote:
> I did not fat finger anything. In the real world, nearly 100% of consumers
> demand IPv6 from their ISP. ...

Hah.  No.  No they don't.  They want, as you point out, "access to the
internet", which they are currently getting JUST FINE.  And this will
continue to be the case for a LONG TIME.

> ISPs who don't have IPv6 will soon be unable to provide access to all
> Internet sites, as content providers begin to bring IPv6 sites onstream.

I've been hearing this BS for over a decade, and yet I've not heard a
single complaint or run into a single site I could not access for lack
of IPv6.  Yes, there are IPv6 only sites, but I don't use them, nor do
any of the people I know.  What little IPv6 I have used I have had to
go out of my way to *intentionally* use IPv6 over v4.

Until there are common sites that are only accessible via IPv6 -- thus
unavailable to "unevolved" ISP customers, ISP won't be investing
anything in IPv6 deployment.  That's not to say ISPs aren't
experimenting with it -- some are, simply that they are not putting
any heavy engineering resources behind it.

> The approaching time...

Right now, that snail is on the other side of the world -- almost
literally.  Unless someone glues a rocket to it's shell, it won't even
be on the horizon for years.  If it were up to me, you, or the rest of
the list, we'd rather simply get the mess over and switch everything
tomorrow.  *heh* But that ain't gonna happen. (I still have gear in
use that only does IPX.  thankfully, I've escaped Appletalk, but IPX
is still clinging to life.)

--Ricky