On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 1:53 PM, Aryeh Gregor <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]> > wrote: >> We have a few months, but by the end of 2012, any major site needs to >> be serving IPv6. > > Unlikely. ISPs are just going to start forcing users to use NAT more > aggressively, use tunnelling, etc. No residential client is going to > be given a connection that's incapable of accessing IPv4-only sites > until virtually all sites have switched, which is probably at least a > decade from now. They'd (rightfully) cancel their subscription on the > grounds that the Internet doesn't work. > > Of course, it would be great if we could switch sooner, and I hope we > will. But it's not like we'll *need* to.
You're making assumptions here that the residential ISPs in the US and Asia have stated aren't true... -- -george william herbert [email protected] _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
