[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

Mark Newton newton at atdot.dotat.org
Wed Jun 8 14:58:54 EST 2016


On Jun 8, 2016, at 2:55 PM, Simon Attwell <simon at attwell.net> wrote:
> ​Totally agree, but see below for what customers see about IPv6 from Internode.​

Like I said: I doubt they’ve edited that in five years. I don’t think it matches current reality (but hey, I could be wrong, who knows).
 
> > Also media providers haven't really caught on to IPv6 yet. Ten play for example will not play their "live" streams if you use IPv6.
> 
> But will if you’re dual stack, so that’s okay.
> 
> ​Nope. Fails with dual-stack. 

<shrug> Works for me, I’ve been dual-stack since 2007.

> Therefore one must assume that IPv6 is metered.

Quotas are really very big now, compared to the state of the art when unmetering was first deployed (3 gig cap!).

If you’re on a 100Gbyte+ plan, does that actually matter anymore?

  - mark



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