[127264] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: IPv6 consumer perception
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Siler)
Fri Jun 18 13:57:30 2010
From: Sean Siler <Sean.Siler@microsoft.com>
To: Marco Hogewoning <marcoh@marcoh.net>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2010 17:57:08 +0000
In-Reply-To: <D33584E0-3287-4FAA-817E-C03CD5826ABD@marcoh.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I'd really like to talk to the guy who presented this. Does anyone happen t=
o have a contact for him? Feel free to send it privately if you do.
Sean
-----Original Message-----
From: Marco Hogewoning [mailto:marcoh@marcoh.net]=20
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2010 10:48 AM
To: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: IPv6 consumer perception
On 18 jun 2010, at 18:04, Zed Usser wrote:
> With marketing campaigns like these, no consumer will want to use IPv6, i=
f it becomes associated with privacy problems.
>=20
> http://torrentfreak.com/huge-security-flaw-makes-vpns-useless-for-bittorr=
ent-100617/
>=20
> It is, of course, totally irrelevant whether the reporting is factually c=
orrect 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 a=
nd 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 gra=
sp the whole idea there are 2 kinds.
All they want is their googles, facebooks, twitters and the occasional down=
load to work (of course nobody would admit to filesharing). And it's our jo=
b to make it so, wether it's via IPv6 or CGN. In the end they won't have mu=
ch choice and if we do our jobs correctly, 95 % of them won't even notice.
Just my 2 cents,
MarcoH
