On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:35 AM, George Bonser wrote:
In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act together and deploy IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of your clued competitor didn't have to do a thing.
Or tell her to run "Windows Update" and get the latest update for her existing OS which has the patch.
Because that certainly solved the DNS resolver over IPv6 problems for all the WinXP users out there.
And then she has to do something *else* 9 months later when you need to deploy IPv6 *anyhow*.
Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how it is deployed. That "something else" might be as simple as "reboot the computer".
Unlikely unless she has IPv6 compliant CPE.
I encourage my competitors to design their business plans that way. :)
Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting Class E into general use seems easy enough to do.
I'd much rather see the resources required go into improving IPv6 support and deployment. Owen