Netflix banning HE tunnels

Thu Jun 9 22:54:02 UTC 2016

On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:32:24 -0400, Adam Rothschild <asr at latency.net>  
wrote:
> How can we, as a community, help move the needle
> on v6 deployment on broadband networks, in cases where competitive
> forces and market pressure don't exist?

You left out "consumer demand". And I would add consumer knowledge as well  
-- there won't be any demand until one knows to ask (it's cablecards all  
over again.) There are 7 billion people on Earth. I suspect it's a stretch  
to say even 100,000 of them understand IPv6. While there are a few ISPs  
who "have" IPv6, many of them have done so mostly for show -- World IPv6  
Day marketing ploy[*].

For now, we'll have to continue the policy of public shaming...

Despite TWC's claims ("IPv6 has been enabled on 100% of our cable Internet  
network.")  
[http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/support/faqs/faqs-internet/ipv6/why-don_t-i-have-ipv6-yet-.html]  
there's a very long list of exceptions... like: it's not been enabled on  
*your* headend, or *your* modem doesn't have it enabled, or we turned if  
off on that modem due to firmware bugs for which we've had fixes for over  
a year, or you're a business account that hasn't had it enabled, or you're  
a "powered by" customer for whom the banner ISP hasn't bothered to assign  
a prefix (*cough* f'ing Earthlink *cough*)

In fact, Earthlink's only IPv6 presence, ever, was the pet project of a  
single engineer. He was kicked out in 2008. The kludge ("auto-tunnel")  
continued to function for a few years before the hardware was turn off,  
recycled, etc. And then the entire research site disappear around 2010.  
Btw, they're still announcing that prefix  
[http://bgp.he.net/net/2001:4840::/32#_irr]

--Ricky

[*] I know my company did. Our "IPv6 Presence" was a VM somewhere running  
nginx to proxy to the (amazon hosted) IPv4 sites. And it was gone the next  
day.