New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

Thu Apr 1 21:25:38 UTC 2010

> I beg to differ. I know several ISPs that have been quietly putting
> quite
> a bit of engineering resource behind IPv6. The public announcement
> of residential IPv6 trials by Comcast was not the beginning of a
> serious
> commitment to IPv6 by Comcast, but, rather more towards the middle.
> Comcast has had substantial engineering resources on IPv6 for
> several years now.

None of my transit providers currently offer native ipv6 where we are
located.  One recent vendor said they could tunnel 6 over 4 but any
network address blocks assigned to that network would change at some
point in the future.  In other words, we could do v6 over 4 now but we
would have to renumber later.

What I heard at a recent (within the past six months) conference was
that "there is no customer demand for v6" so it isn't on the immediate
needs list.  He said they had a lot of inquiries about v6, but to date
not having native v6 wasn't a deal breaker with anyone.

So my instincts tell me that until not being native v6 capable IS a deal
breaker with potential clients, it isn't really going to go on the front
burner.  Many companies operate on the "it isn't a problem until it is a
problem" model.

George