IPv6 woes - RFC

Mon Sep 6 07:39:29 UTC 2021

Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> writes:
> On Mon, 6 Sept 2021 at 10:20, Bjørn Mork <bjorn at mork.no> wrote:
>
>> Adding new access infrastructure of any sort (Fixed Wireless is the
>> hype...)?  Why would you want to continue being stupid even if you
>> implemented dual-stack for all your fibre, hfc and dsl customers?  You
>> can save a lot by dropping dual-stack complexities in PGWs and FWA CPEs,
>> even if we assume most of the fibre/hfc/dsl value chain is reused.
>
> Can you? You need to offer IPv4 anyhow and all the complexities
> related to that, i.e. some stateful box. Why would I offer in addition
> to that IPv6, which is not being requested by anyone. And by anyone I
> mean anyone I want as customer, as those who request it, are probably
> going to be expensive to support and I need to subsidise those with my
> regular customers, so I'd rather not cater to those.

Exactly. The existing dual-stack deployments will die out as access
infra-structure is replaced.

Bjørn