On Thu, 09 Jun 2016 13:32:24 -0400, Adam Rothschild <a...@latency.net>
wrote:
How can we, as a community, help move the needle
on v6 deployment on broadband networks, in cases where competitive
forces and market pressure don't exist?
You left out "consumer demand". And I would add consumer knowledge as well
-- there won't be any demand until one knows to ask (it's cablecards all
over again.) There are 7 billion people on Earth. I suspect it's a stretch
to say even 100,000 of them understand IPv6. While there are a few ISPs
who "have" IPv6, many of them have done so mostly for show -- World IPv6
Day marketing ploy[*].
For now, we'll have to continue the policy of public shaming...
Despite TWC's claims ("IPv6 has been enabled on 100% of our cable Internet
network.")
[http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/support/faqs/faqs-internet/ipv6/why-don_t-i-have-ipv6-yet-.html]
there's a very long list of exceptions... like: it's not been enabled on
*your* headend, or *your* modem doesn't have it enabled, or we turned if
off on that modem due to firmware bugs for which we've had fixes for over
a year, or you're a business account that hasn't had it enabled, or you're
a "powered by" customer for whom the banner ISP hasn't bothered to assign
a prefix (*cough* f'ing Earthlink *cough*)
In fact, Earthlink's only IPv6 presence, ever, was the pet project of a
single engineer. He was kicked out in 2008. The kludge ("auto-tunnel")
continued to function for a few years before the hardware was turn off,
recycled, etc. And then the entire research site disappear around 2010.
Btw, they're still announcing that prefix
[http://bgp.he.net/net/2001:4840::/32#_irr]
--Ricky
[*] I know my company did. Our "IPv6 Presence" was a VM somewhere running
nginx to proxy to the (amazon hosted) IPv4 sites. And it was gone the next
day.
