On Feb 17, 2011, at 8:35 AM, George Bonser wrote: >> >> In other words, you're going to tell Granny she needs to upgrade to >> Windows 8 and/or replace her CPE because you couldn't get your act >> together and deploy >> IPv6 - even though her friends at the bridge club who are customers of >> your clued competitor didn't have to do a thing. > > Or tell her to run "Windows Update" and get the latest update for her > existing OS which has the patch. > Because that certainly solved the DNS resolver over IPv6 problems for all the WinXP users out there.
> >> And then she has to do something *else* 9 months later when you need > to >> deploy IPv6 *anyhow*. > > Maybe, maybe not. It depends on how it is deployed. That "something > else" might be as simple as "reboot the computer". > Unlikely unless she has IPv6 compliant CPE. >> >> I encourage my competitors to design their business plans that way. :) > > Considering v4 is likely to be around for another decade or two, getting > Class E into general use seems easy enough to do. > > I'd much rather see the resources required go into improving IPv6 support and deployment. Owen
