quietly....

Sun Feb 6 22:44:35 UTC 2011

In message <23119638.5335.1297017284299.JavaMail.root at benjamin.baylink.com>, Ja
y Ashworth writes:
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com>
> 
> > I'm pretty sure the PS3 will get resolved through a software update.
> > 
> > Yes, there will be user-visible disruptions in this transition.
> > 
> > No, it can't be 100% magic on the part of the service provider.
> > 
> > It still has to happen. There is no viable alternative.
> 
> There will be *lots* of user visible disruptions.  And if you believe,
> as it appears you do from the integration of your messages on this thread,
> that anyone anywhere will be able through any legal theory to *force* Sony
> to make that older PS3 work on IPv6, then the term for your opinion, in *my*
> opinion, has changed from "optimistic" to "nutsabago".  :-)
> 
> >From up here at 30,000ft, the entire deployment of IPv6 has been cripplingly
> mismanaged, or we wouldn't be having all these conversations, still, now.
> Having had them 5 years ago would have been well more than good enough.
> And it will start to bite, hard, very shortly.
> 
> Cheers,
> -- jra

PS3 will only be a problem if it doesn't work through double NAT
or there is no IPv4 path available.  Homes will be dual stacked for
the next 10 years or so even if the upstream is IPv6 only.  DS-Lite
or similar will provide a IPv4 path.  The DS-Lite service can be
supplied by anyone anywhere on the IPv6 Internet that has public
IPv4 addresses.

Mark
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