On Fri, 22 May 2020 at 15:26, Neil J. McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > > And whilst some on here seem to think that ridiculing peoples opinions and > > suggestions is acceptable, I think that Paul (Mansfield) has made a valid > > suggestion that deserves to be discussed in an adult manner. > > Sorry as its Friday, I actually thought Paul was trying to be funny!
except my email was sent on 19 May, Tuesday, three days before. And I am serious. Look, it's time to basically JFDI. It can be done, there's no lack of information on what to do or how to do it and how to allow customers to connect to legacy services on IPv4. On the one hand I thought that BT might actually want to discontinue ipv4 service, because BT have rolled out v6 to their domestic customers, and I assume business customers need only ask for an allocation, so there's actually nothing to stop you. Or could it be that your hoard of ipv4 gives you an advantage over new entrants to the market because they would have to buy IPv4 if they can even get the large blocks they need particularly for global routing/BGP filtering etc? Sky too have rolled of IPv6 to the consumer. If Sky and BT and good ISPs like Zen do this, you'd have a head start over other providers like TalkTalk and Plusnet (ahem!). Basically, just stop poncing around. Five years is plenty of time, customer churn rates will allow for any non-compliant domestic CPEs to be replaced, and for business users to get their arses in gear, it's not rocket science, and if they don't have anyone who can learn how to set up IPv6, maybe they're not competent enough to be allowed to have an internet connection. I originally thought three years would be sufficient, but I figured you need to allow the natural customer churn to do a lot of the work for you. Do it, just fucking do it.
