Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6

[Jared Mauch <jared () puck Nether net>]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 10:05:32AM -0400, Lee Howard wrote:
> On 7/9/15, 11:04 AM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman"
> <nanog-bounces () nanog org on behalf of mel () beckman org> wrote:
>
> > I working on a large airport WiFi deployment right now. IPv6 is "allowed
> > for in the future" but not configured in the short term. With less than
> > 10,000 ephemeral users, we don't expect users to demand IPv6 until most
> > mobile devices and apps come ready to use IPv6 by default.
>
> I didn¹t see anybody point out that most mobile devices and apps come
> ready to use IPv6 by default.
> At least, all Android and iOS devices do, and Apple recently announced
> that IPv6 support will be mandatory in future apps.
> Plus, Facebook, at least, says IPv6 is faster over mobile. Don¹t know how
> it does over Wi-Fi.

        While this is true, the fear of new/unknown causes many people
to behave like deer in the headlights.  At some point someone
needs to blink and move.  On the "wifi here" locations they need these
stickers also affixed: http://tnx.nl/legacy-ip-only.svg

        - Jared

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