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Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
From: Lee Howard <Lee () asgard org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 15:57:49 -0400
On 6/18/14 3:38 PM, "Owen DeLong" <owen () delong com> wrote:
2. Older gateways, especially consumer-owned retail devices, don't support IPv6. Churn would help, if new retail gateways supported IPv6.Several do now. What are $CABLECO, $CE_STORES, etc. doing to make sure consumers choose these or at least realize the consequences of failing to choose them?
http://www.timewarnercable.com/en/residential-home/support/topics/internet/ buy-your-modem.html http://mydeviceinfo.comcast.net/ http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20140107006526/en/CEA-Selects-Safe-Dr iving-IPv6-Implementation-Standards#.U6HuqS_9q_s However, I also don't think consumer education is the answer: http://www.wleecoyote.com/blog/consumeraction.htm Summary: Until it is perfectly clear why a consumer needs IPv6, and what they need to do about it, consumer education will only cause fear and frustration, which will not be helpful. This is a technology problem, not a feature problem, and consumers shouldn't have to select which Internet to be on. Lee
Current thread:
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion, (continued)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Owen DeLong (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Darren Pilgrim (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Kalnozols, Andris (Jun 22)
- RE: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Frank Bulk (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Kalnozols, Andris (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Laszlo Hanyecz (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Owen DeLong (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Jimmy Hess (Jun 23)
- RE: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Frank Bulk (Jun 22)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Owen DeLong (Jun 18)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Lee Howard (Jun 18)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Owen DeLong (Jun 18)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Barry Shein (Jun 18)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Owen DeLong (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Barry Shein (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Christopher Morrow (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Barry Shein (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Owen DeLong (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Barry Shein (Jun 19)
- Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 19)