[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[Mark Smith]

On 28 May 2016 at 10:32, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dual stack solves ALL of those issues.
>
> Nobody is expecting an IPv6-only service (yet).
>

People are actually deploying them, using a level of IPv6 to IPv4
translation to provide IPv4 access.

"Case Study: T-Mobile US Goes IPv6-only Using 464XLAT
http://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-study-t-mobile-us-goes-ipv6-only-using-464xlat/




> 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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