> Anno domini 2016 Benedikt Stockebrand scripsit: > > Hi, > > > > About two years ago there was a large German VoIP provider complaining > > > that all these evil German cable providers had started using IPv6. They > > > wrote about it in an their BLOG. There were about 70 comments in the > > > form of "Why don't you just provide IPv6?" > > > > Don't forget to mention their statement in that blog that "it's a > > problem between you and your ISP." Telling that to users who have been > > switched to DS-Lite (without their ISP even telling them, at least in > > some cases), and whose "land line" phone stopped working, that's about > > as good as it gets when you really, really, REALLY want some customers > > never ever to come back. > > > > "*Our* Internet works, so it must be yours that needs fixing!" > > > > "We have enough IPv4 addresses for ourselves, so this isn't a problem to > > us." > > That's the dumbest and sadly most oftenly heared sentence in this context. > > I had hoped that there were some IPv6 only/broken IPv4 services around > today that would show people that's not the way to go, but I don't > know any. Does anyone have a good example here? >
Not an example, but rather a dream - World IPv4 Outage Day ;-) > Even in the educational sector where I work, where we have enough[tm] > money for hardware and tutorials there's no interest in a useful deployment. > Activating v6 in the 5k+ users wifi is delayed (again) for next year, because > it's neither important or urgent. That's the point where I gave up > > What I absolutely fail to grasp is why people don't want to deploy > this v6 stuff while they have a chance to do it without user/customer/ > peer pressure but want to wait until the pressure gets too high. > Don't anyone talk about diamonds now.. > > > > There was a lot of time to see that IPv6 is coming. There are still > > > networking projects today that are not build with IPv6 in mind[3]. > > > > And then there are those network projects that claim they support IPv6 > > but actually only do "IPv4 with longer addresses". But that's the real > > problem: There's a painful shortage of people who know about networking > > in general, but with IPv6 it's absolutely hopeless. There aren't even > > enough people who just memorized enough cookbook recipes they don't > > understand to get IPv6 (sort of) up and running. > > *sigh* > > Where's that drain cleaner? > > Best > Max > -- > <@Cord> *gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn* unsre kleine Servermanufaktur hat wieder > zugeschlagen. > <@Cord> Java-Update... nun auf dem 10ten Server... alles glatt gegangen. > <@ixs> Cord: und das, meine damen und herren, ist warum sie automatisierung > kaufen sollten. damit sie auch > morgen noch kraftvoll adminstrieren koennen.. > -- Hrant Dadivanyan (aka Ran d'Adi) hrant(at)dadivanyan.net /* "Feci quod potui, faciant meliora potentes." */ ran(at)psg.com
