On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 8:16 PM, Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com> wrote:
I did not fat finger anything. In the real world, nearly 100% of consumers demand IPv6 from their ISP. ...
Hah. No. No they don't. They want, as you point out, "access to the internet", which they are currently getting JUST FINE. And this will continue to be the case for a LONG TIME.
ISPs who don't have IPv6 will soon be unable to provide access to all Internet sites, as content providers begin to bring IPv6 sites onstream.
I've been hearing this BS for over a decade, and yet I've not heard a single complaint or run into a single site I could not access for lack of IPv6. Yes, there are IPv6 only sites, but I don't use them, nor do any of the people I know. What little IPv6 I have used I have had to go out of my way to *intentionally* use IPv6 over v4. Until there are common sites that are only accessible via IPv6 -- thus unavailable to "unevolved" ISP customers, ISP won't be investing anything in IPv6 deployment. That's not to say ISPs aren't experimenting with it -- some are, simply that they are not putting any heavy engineering resources behind it.
The approaching time...
Right now, that snail is on the other side of the world -- almost literally. Unless someone glues a rocket to it's shell, it won't even be on the horizon for years. If it were up to me, you, or the rest of the list, we'd rather simply get the mess over and switch everything tomorrow. *heh* But that ain't gonna happen. (I still have gear in use that only does IPX. thankfully, I've escaped Appletalk, but IPX is still clinging to life.) --Ricky