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You're going to hit a wall with every ISP in the US and any country whose major telecos don't give a shit. Fundamentally, why do they have to support ipv6? Esp
by zanny 11y ago
You're going to hit a wall with every ISP in the US and any country whose major telecos don't give a shit.
Fundamentally, why do they have to support ipv6? Especially when they have monopoly power over their customers? Its not like the customers can see the difference, and if a website doesn't work for a network of millions because the site v6 only the only loser is the website.
I'd be surprised if we hit 15% this year. Web services are doing a good job supporting v6, but now you have to get all ISPs to do it as well, and those ISPs are always ranked as some of the most consumer unfriendly companies in a lot of countries because they have no market pressure to improve or serve their customers well.
- lflux 11y agoEvery? Comcast does IPv6 since a few years back.
- icehawk 11y agoComcast has spoken a bit about why they're implementing IPv6. From: http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-54/presentations/IPv6_management.pdf http://meetings.ripe.net/ripe-54/presentations/IPv6_manageme... In the control plane, all devices need to be remotely managed, so NAT isn’t going to help us, nor is federated Net 10 islands… IPv6 is the clear solution for us.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoSo they are managing devices inband as Sir Humphrey might say a "How very courageous"
- X-Istence 11y agoThe devices are set top boxes, modems and more. Those devices only have a single plug that plugs them into the network, technically it is all inband. It's only separated in that your cable modem gets a non-routable IPv6 address. It's non-routable within the internet but is a stock standard globally unique IP address. This is used for management purposes.
- zaphoyd 11y agoActually a huge chunk of the US ISP market has IPv6 in production. Comcast, Time Warner Cable, AT&T, Verizon Wireless, T-Mobile, Sprint, Google Fiber. Ironically, it is their huge monopolistic size that actually makes them great candidates for IPv6. They are getting too large to use IPv4. It will be the small consumer friendly shoestring ISP operations that will take the longest.
- scurvy 11y agoPosit: Europe will be slow to adopt IPv6 because Europe isn't growing at all (population). They're "OK" with what they have now in terms of IPv4. Posit: the rest of the world continues growing and adopts IPv6. Europe is left behind by stick-in-the-mud ISP's. We're already starting to see this [0]. The exception in Europe is Germany, mainly due to DT. Discuss. [0] https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption&tab=per-country-ipv6-adoption https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html#tab=per-...