Yea I’d like to see mandated IPv6 if ISPs want government money, around here an IPv4 only ISP won a government contract a while back for res fiber deployment and the last I heard from an acquaintance I spoke to over there they are planning to stuff the entire city behind a /24 with no upcoming plans to enable v6 (but of course you can get your own IP if you pay more).
I’m not a conspiracy theorist but sometimes it feels like some smaller ISPs are intentionally not deploying v6 so they can get customers to upgrade to more expensive plans for the luxury of *checks notes* not getting rate limited. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 1, 2023, at 15:41, William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 4:55 PM Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> https://docs.google.com/document/d/19ADByjakzQXCj9Re_pUvrb5Qe5OK-QmhlYRLMBY4vH4/edit >> >> Comments (and cites) welcomed also! The text is still somewhat in flux... > > Hi Dave, > > You start off with a decent thesis - beyond 100mbps there really isn't > any difference in capability, not for residential use. Just a > difference in how quickly some tasks complete. It's not like the > difference between 768kbps and 10 mbps where one does streaming video > and conferencing while the other does not. > > But then you get lost in latency. Latency is important but it's only > one in a laundry list of things that make the difference between > quality and trash in Internet services. > > * Packet loss. > > * Service outages. I have a buddy whose phone line has been out for > days four times this year. His ILEC neither wants to maintain the > copper lines nor install fiber that deep in the woods, so they keep > doing mediocre repairs to the infrastructure that don't hold up. > > * Incomplete connectivity (e.g. Cogent and IPv6). > > Personally, I'd love to see rulemaking to the effect that only folks > with -open- peering policies are eligible for government funds and > contracts. But that's my pet peeve, like latency is yours. And if I > pitch that, it'll rightly be seen as a pet issue. > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/
