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Re: IPv6 consumer perception

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marco Hogewoning)
Fri Jun 18 13:48:43 2010

From: Marco Hogewoning <marcoh@marcoh.net>
In-Reply-To: <270017.4386.qm@web114714.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 19:48:00 +0200
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org


On 18 jun 2010, at 18:04, Zed Usser wrote:

> With marketing campaigns like these, no consumer will want to use =
IPv6, if it becomes associated with privacy problems.
>=20
> =
http://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-makes-vpns-useless-for-bittorre=
nt-100617/
>=20
> It is, of course, totally irrelevant whether the reporting is =
factually correct or even based on real IPv6 issues or not, this is how =
public opinion is formed.=20
>=20
> The only takeaway from this to a non-technical user is that IPv6 is =
bad and the correct solution is to turn it off.


Why do people still think consumers 'want IPv6', they want IPv6 as much =
as they want IPv4. They don't know what an IP addresses is, let alone =
will grasp the whole idea there are 2 kinds.

All they want is their googles, facebooks, twitters and the occasional =
download to work (of course nobody would admit to filesharing). And it's =
our job to make it so, wether it's via IPv6 or CGN. In the end they =
won't have much choice and if we do our jobs correctly, 95 % of them =
won't even notice.

Just my 2 cents,

MarcoH



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