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]

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