[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[Robert Hudson]

Dual stack solves ALL of those issues.

Nobody is expecting an IPv6-only service (yet).

Nobody (and in particular, no ISP) should be running an IPv4-only service -
there is simply no good excuse for denying this service to customers any
more.
On 28 May 2016 10:00 AM, "Mark Delany" <g2x at juliet.emu.st> wrote:

On 28May16, Robert Hudson allegedly wrote:
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> Early adopter status for IPv6 stopped being a thing many years ago. OSs,
> vendors, standards, etc have all been ready for ages.

You need to think further up the stack.

How many Australian ISPs properly support v6? Maybe 5% of them?

How many Australian hosting providers support v6? 5%?

How many Australian domain registrars support v6?

How many Australian DNS providers fully support v6?

How many Australian written applications still only accept v4 address
in forms?

How many government departments and businesses are still running on
early versions of XP? Heck, I was at a retail outlet the other day and
the POS app looked to be a DOS based!

It may be true that the vendor kit now works. But by the numbers, the
humans, IT departments and the services they manage are definitely
still in the early adopter stage.


Mark.
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