Well, I live in the US and this is a North American specific list (NANOG) and IPv6 is the resolution of those issues for us. I'm not particularly familiar with the state of networking in the rest of the world, so have no idea how much of an issue it is for them. And yes, TVs stick around for a long time, but Smart TV (the kind that does its own streaming) is relatively new category. I haven't personally encountered one that doesn't do IPv6. I'm sure there are some models that don't, but I'm wondering if there's any actual data available on that question. On Jan 28, 2016 11:46, "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.
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.
-- Chris.