[LINK] IPv6 doomed

[Scott Howard]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Howard Lowndes <lannet at lannet.com.au>wrote:

> I think before we start blaming the ISPs and carriers we should be
> pointing the bone at the gateway commodity manufacturers.  Can you think
> of any ADSL gateway box that does IPv6 natively, let alone have the
> ability to configure for IPv6.  Let's face it. most of these boxes are
> still running Linux 2.4.x
>

It's catch-22.  Until ISP's start providing native IPv6 to consumers (or
even to companies) the equipment manufacturers not only have no motivation
to produce IPv6 capable devices, but also very little idea what a "consumer
IPv6 service" looks like.

Will ISP's give customers 1 address, or an entire /56?  Will the ISP do DHCP
for multiple CPE devices, will they use IPv6 auto-configure, or neither?
Tunnelled or native? Persistent IP addresses, or not? etc, etc...

Of course until there are consumer devices available the ISPs also have very
little incentive to setup IPv6 services - plus realistically most ISPs don't
even know what an IPv6 service is going to end up looking like.

Kudos to InterNode and similiar ISPs that are providing IPv6 to consumers,
but only time will tell how close they got to what IPv6 ends up looking like
in a few years...

  Scott.