I'm sad that three years after this thought exercise: https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg06597.html
we seem no closer to IPv4 being left behind like a relic of the stone age. And with FTTP being rolled out across the country at a reasonable pace, I would hope that the CPEs will have enough performance for IPv6 given they need to handle up to gigabit performance? --- this is what I wrote --- Here's a thought. Industry leading bodies* should announce that from 2026 all internet connections sold in the UK will be IPv6 only, and thus all CPEs must support IPv6 on the WAN and the LAN side, with no IPv4 on either. ISPs can then offer a DNS64/NAT64 service for customers, particularly consumers, who can't implement their own solution. I think that allowing the current situation to drag out simply causes more pain in the long run, and we all know that when there's no real deadline nothing ever finishes! * the LINX, LONAP, MANAP etc, UKNOF and the biggest ISPs such as BT and Sky. I can't include Virgin, Talktalk and PlusNet since they seem to be somewhat silent on this ;-)
