Anno domini 2016 Benedikt Stockebrand scripsit: Hi,
About two years ago there was a large German VoIP provider complaining that all these evil German cable providers had started using IPv6. They wrote about it in an their BLOG. There were about 70 comments in the form of "Why don't you just provide IPv6?"
Don't forget to mention their statement in that blog that "it's a problem between you and your ISP." Telling that to users who have been switched to DS-Lite (without their ISP even telling them, at least in some cases), and whose "land line" phone stopped working, that's about as good as it gets when you really, really, REALLY want some customers never ever to come back.
"*Our* Internet works, so it must be yours that needs fixing!"
"We have enough IPv4 addresses for ourselves, so this isn't a problem to us."
That's the dumbest and sadly most oftenly heared sentence in this context. I had hoped that there were some IPv6 only/broken IPv4 services around today that would show people that's not the way to go, but I don't know any. Does anyone have a good example here? Even in the educational sector where I work, where we have enough[tm] money for hardware and tutorials there's no interest in a useful deployment. Activating v6 in the 5k+ users wifi is delayed (again) for next year, because it's neither important or urgent. That's the point where I gave up What I absolutely fail to grasp is why people don't want to deploy this v6 stuff while they have a chance to do it without user/customer/ peer pressure but want to wait until the pressure gets too high. Don't anyone talk about diamonds now..
There was a lot of time to see that IPv6 is coming. There are still networking projects today that are not build with IPv6 in mind[3].
And then there are those network projects that claim they support IPv6 but actually only do "IPv4 with longer addresses". But that's the real problem: There's a painful shortage of people who know about networking in general, but with IPv6 it's absolutely hopeless. There aren't even enough people who just memorized enough cookbook recipes they don't understand to get IPv6 (sort of) up and running.
*sigh* Where's that drain cleaner? Best Max -- <@Cord> *gnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn* unsre kleine Servermanufaktur hat wieder zugeschlagen. <@Cord> Java-Update... nun auf dem 10ten Server... alles glatt gegangen. <@ixs> Cord: und das, meine damen und herren, ist warum sie automatisierung kaufen sollten. damit sie auch morgen noch kraftvoll adminstrieren koennen..