Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

> 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

Short of consumer education, how do you expect to resolve the issue where $CONSUMER walks into $BIG_BOX_CE_STORE and 
says "I need a router, what's the cheapest one you have?"

Whereupon $TEENAGER_MAKING_MINIMUM_WAGE who likely doesn't know DOCSIS 2 from DOCSIS 3, has no idea what IP actually 
is, and thinks that Data is an android from Star Trek says "Here, this Linksys thing is only $30."

Unless/until we either get the stores to pull the IPv4-only stuff off their shelves or educate consumers, the continued 
deployment of additional incapable equipment will be a continuing problem. As bad as the situation is for cablemodems 
and residential gateways, at least there, an educated consumer can make a good choice. Now, consider DVRs, BluRay 
players, Receiver/Amplifiers, Televisions, etc. where there are, currently, no IPv6 capable choices available to the 
best of my knowledge.

Owen