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Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels
From: Mark Andrews <marka () isc org>
Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2016 15:52:35 +1000
In message <0e36af3e-9781-4f2b-1080-af915fff3755 () blakjak net>, Mark Foster writ es:
On 10/06/2016 4:38 p.m., Mark Andrews wrote:It would be nice to live in a world where that were the case. However, the world we live in is run my bean counters, and the marketing department. IPv6 is a huge project that is seen by them as an unnecessary expense.Absolute BS. IPv6 has never needed to be a huge project for a ISP compared to everything else a ISP does. It required some research and ensuring that you bought compatible equipement and things fell due for replacement. If you failed to do the research and therefore needed to do everthing in a rush then it might seem like a huge project.Router-jockeys and purists often cite this. I've done it myself. But there are a lot more moving parts in most service providers than simply the ones and zeros. Bandwidth Accounting, Billing, Provisioning systems in particular - and the developers/maintainers of these who have little or no knowledge of IPv6 and perhaps not a lot more than that of IPv4, except that it's more easily human-read and digested?
And the same applies to those systems.
This was very much my experience in more than one ISP job over recent years - the network kit is more than capable, it's the bits around the outside that need work. Even if routing and switching kit was subject to lifecycle-replacement every 5 years or so, software components that are in the background, 'just work' and suddenly are very black-boxy because the author has long since left the organisation and noone left behind knows how to make it IPv6ready... sometimes the forklift approach is what is left.
For most things conversion to support IPv6 is trivial. The hardest thing is getting someone to signoff on someone looking under the hood.
Sorry this is tangental to the thread's focus but every time I see this particular argument trotted out I feel like it's overlooking the obvious; lack of sufficient forethought 10 years ago turns into significant piece of work today. A lesson? Yes, but hindsight is 20:20.
And people were arguing 10+ years ago to start now so you don't need to do everything in a rush. What we got back then was "IPv6 won't take off". This isn't 20:20 hindsite. It's we told you so.
Mark.
-- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka () isc org
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- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Ricky Beam (Jun 10)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Randy Bush (Jun 10)
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- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels [really: IPv6 adoption] bzs (Jun 10)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Randy Bush (Jun 09)
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- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Baldur Norddahl (Jun 12)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Mark Andrews (Jun 12)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 12)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 13)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Baldur Norddahl (Jun 13)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Owen DeLong (Jun 13)
- Re: Netflix banning HE tunnels Baldur Norddahl (Jun 13)