100% want IPv6 - Was: New Linksys CPE, IPv6 ?

Thu Apr 1 06:07:05 UTC 2010

On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:

> Dan White wrote:
> 
>>>> Are you willing to gamble your business on your expectations? Business
>>>> models will develop that will take advantage of global addressing to end
>>>> devices. The Next Big (Nth) Thing will. Do you feel that you have a
>>>> perfect
>>>> Crystal Ball, or do you want to start hedging your bets now?
>>> 
>>> ^^ Doubt.
>> 
>> http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv4-address-space/
>> 
> 
> 
> We have just (anecdotally, empirically) established earlier in this
> thread, that anything smaller than a mid-sized business, can't even
> *GET* IPv6 easily (at least in the USA); much less care about it.
> 
Huh??? I missed that somewhere.  The previous paragraph is:

Falsehood
Uncertainty
Doubt

Contrary evidence:

whois -h whois.arin.net 2620:0:930::/48  -- ARIN Direct Assignment
	Multihomed Household
	Qualified under stricter policy than is now in effect.

http://www.tunnelbroker.net (yes, I work there, but, you don't have to work there
to get a /48 for free).

> Talking about a "crystal ball", in my view, is just a lot of hand-waving
> that means "I don't have a real-world example to point to".
> 
http://www.delong.com

Real world web site multi-homed, dual-stacked, and running just fine.

> Talking about "the Next Big Thing" means that somehow, the NBT will be
> present without any residential or small business broadband users
> partaking in it.  Sounds like a pretty small piece of the pie for the NBT...
> 
Again, conclusions not in evidence.  It's easy for anyone who wants it to
get IPv6 and IPv6 connectivity. Sure, native IPv6 is a little harder to get,
but, overall, I'm doing OK with tunnels of various forms and native will
be coming along shortly in many many more places.

Owen