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So we're not fixing the transport layer due to limitations in the network layer that have been fixed, we're just not using them.

• digi_owl 11y ago
  Pretty much. I find myself suspecting that we will see more and more sofware "fixes" piled on top to avoid doing mass hardware replacements...
  • a3n 11y ago
    Yet it can be done. Digital over the air TV for example.
    • digi_owl 11y ago
      One thing when it is done at the consumers expense, another when the company has to cover it.
• dtech 11y ago
  You mean IPv6? That suffers from exactly the same problem: ISP's just don't give a damn and don't roll it out. You cannot expect your average internet user to know about these things, so they get away with it.
  • nly 11y ago
    Major residential ISPs aren't rolling out IPv6 largely because they already have enough IPv4 space for their customers. Take a major UK ISP like Virgin Media. According to Hurricane Electrics BGP looking glass project they are originating 9.4M IPv4 addresses[0], however, at the end of 2012, according to Wikipedia[1], they only had 4.8M customers. [0] http://bgp.he.net/AS5089#_asinfo http://bgp.he.net/AS5089#_asinfo [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media
    • georgerobinson 11y ago
      Virgin Media can't even expand that easily because they must lay cable in areas that weren't covered by NTL/Telewest infrastructure: and I believe is extremely expensive and time consuming with planning permission being what it is.