[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

Good work.  At the very least turning it on moves things forward. 

Telstra have got dual stack for their residential NBN connections - so that’s a step forward.

I’m now living in the USA and both my mobile phone (Verizon in my case) and intert lnet (Comcast) are dual stacked.

MMC


> On 26 May 2016, at 9:11 PM, Michael J. Carmody <michael at opusv.com.au> wrote:
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> As an engineer who just turned on dual-stack for a local residential ISP, we did it “just because”, and to be a good netizen, and for plain old curiousity.
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> Aside from a few tens of hours of engineering for build, test and deploy its pretty much cost neutral.
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> I was more afraid of additional support burden for the ISP, but this turned out to be a non-event (two cases in total of broken CPE just refusing to work with IPv6, and IPv4 breaking along with it)
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> Mind you some tangible double digit percentage are just saying “no thanks” during the IPCP session when offered IPv6.
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> I think about 5% of that customers transit is now native IPv6 since the switch over last month.
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> -Michael Carmody
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> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net <mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Aftab Siddiqui
> Sent: Friday, 27 May 2016 2:07 PM
> To: Mark Smith
> Cc: AusNOG Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] IPv6 excuses
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> ISPs could create that incentive by making a dual IPv4/IPv6 stack
> service cheaper than a single IPv4 stack service. The answer to the
> "why" question above then becomes "because we get cheaper Internet
> access."
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> Here is the response from my residential ISP :) 
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> We regret to inform you that we do not support native IPv6 for residential customers. However we can provide you an explicit 6 to 4 tunneling solution so that allows IPv6 packets to be transmitted over our IPv4 backbone.
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