[dundee] World IPv6 Launch

[Kris Davidson]

Which is a profoundly bad idea. It'll mess up port forwarding and stuff 
like XBox Live etc.

On Sat 21 Jan 2012 17:43:04 GMT, Robert Ladyman wrote:
>>>> 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.