[AusNOG] IPv6 Article on CNN

[Mark Andrews]

ISP's really should have been moving years ago.  If you all had you
wouldn't need to be deploying CGN's (either as NAT444 or DS-lite)
as the majority of the world would have switched to IPv6.  As it
is you have a entire world you need to switch over to IPv6 in under
2 years to avoid have to deploy CGN's.

You really should have been ready to go native with IPv6 when the
6bone shutdown, 6/6/2006, or at least be starting to deploy IPv6.
There was plenty that ISP's could have done but failed to do so.

How many home routers today support IPv6?  Go to Harvy Norman, Dick
Smith and the like and see.  Not very many.  They all should have
IPv6 support by now if the industry had been doing the right things.
As it is you have to convince you entire installed base to replace
these boxes in the next 2 years.  Microsoft, Apple and the free OS
vendors got this right and started shipping IPv6 ready boxes years
ago.

Did you go to the home router vendors and say "we will need you to
be shipping IPv6 capable devices by MM/YYYY" and "they will need
this minimal level of functionality".   Most home users don't know
what they need so it really was not their job to ask for IPv6.  It
should have been the ISP's job to make sure that their customers
could get the equipment they will need before they know that they
will needed it.  This is called planning.

Do you have advice on your web pages stating to customers that they
need to be buying IPv6 capable CPE equipment now?

Do your web pages mention your IPv6 plans?

Do you FAQ entries about IPv6?

Mark
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Mark Andrews, ISC
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