Hi, On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 02:07:31PM +0100, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Mon, 6 Mar 2017, Gert Doering wrote: > > > 3G mandated IPv6, no carrier actually deployed it *before* they had a > > huge legacy of IPv4-only handsets in the field... could have been done > > from day one. > > On the other hand no handset manufacturer apart from Nokia ever made any > 3G handsets that supported IPv6.
I'm not sure why "point to the part in the 3G specs that says v6 is mandatory"
would have been so hard...
> Also, since you needed two concurrent bearers and the 3GPP network vendors
> charged per bearer, it also make IPv6 deployment extremely expensive.
>
> Yes, plenty of blame to go around. It's not only a carrier problem.
If you wanted reasons to not deploy IPv6, there have always been excuses
galore.
But then do not complain 10 years later that you have such a large basis
of IPv4-only clients and all of a sudden it's sooo much work...
Gert Doering
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?
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