On Jan 28, 2016, at 09:45 , Chris Knipe <savage@savage.za.org> wrote:
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 7:40 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog@ics-il.net> wrote:
There's little reason to buy a newer TV more than every 5 - 10 years, so many TVs will be stranded until (if) they have some unifying firmware.
Well the TV is also meaningless if the CPE, and (at the very least) service provider don't support IPv6. And yes, that is unfortunately reality. If you look beyond the US and EU, and maybe Brazil, the rest of the world, unfortunately, is FAR from IPv6 adoption, and that *is* reality.
Not so much as you claim… It’s true that Africa, middle east, and Russia are in a horrible state. It’s true that India IPv6 deployment is non-existant. However, Canada, Japan, Indonesia and Malaysia have significant IPv6 deployment. China has some (thought not as much as we would all like. Ecuador is doing quite well. Peru has good penetration, but their IPv6 is about as reliable as their IPv4.
Hence my initial comments... It's going to be many more years, before IPv6 is the "fix" for any real problems currently experienced with IPv4. Sad, but unfortunately, true.
I think that the adoption rate in those places will accelerate rather quickly as the true cost of maintaining IPv4 becomes more visible to them. In the US, for example, there were several small deployments at first, then, after trials and such, Comcast and several other large providers went from very little deployment to general availability to nearly 100% of their customers within a few months. I don’t see any reason that can’t happen elsewhere. Especially as the path to IPv6 deployment is becoming more and more well known and more and more experience is shared among operators and technicians. Owen