[dundee] World IPv6 Launch

Robert Ladyman it at file-away.co.uk
Sat Jan 21 17:43:15 UTC 2012


> >>http://www.worldipv6launch.org/
> 
> If only it were that easy. 15 companies saying they are enabling IPv6 on
> that date will not make all the hardware on the internet compatible with
> IPv6
> 
> BT for example will not have IPv6 enabled fully for some time yet and
> they are the biggest UK ISP. What you may find is that a lot of
> companies will try to overcome this using tunnelling instead.
> 
> Most ISP's will not ditch IPv4 for a very long time. Apart from their
> own equipment how many of their customers even have routers or devices
> on their network that support IPv6.
> 
> Peter

Yes, indeed. I suspect we might end up with IPV6 for the 'backhaul' while all 
using IPV4 behind NAT.
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