IPv6 woes - RFC

Sat Sep 11 17:11:48 UTC 2021

> On Sep 10, 2021, at 13:22 , John Levine <johnl at iecc.com> wrote:
> 
> It appears that Owen DeLong via NANOG <owen at delong.com> said:
>> This is my point… That is why I think an announcement of “On X date,
>> we will begin charging extra for IPv4 services and define Internet Access
>> to be IPv6” by a couple of the larger eyeball ISPs would light a pretty
>> big fire under those laggards.
> 
> Indeed.  They would send postcards to all their customers saying
> "Comcast has said they will cut off your access to Netflix on April 1,
> Call their president's office at 1-800-xxx-xxxx and tell them what you think."

Nope… Netflix is fully available on IPv6 and actually looks forward to ISPs
doing this.

Now Amazon might send post cards saying “Comcast has said that they
will cut off your access to our store…”, but I suspect that the cost of such
a campaign and the collateral damage would be well in excess of the
cost of just adding IPv6 to their service.

Owen