[172431] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ars Technica on IPv4 exhaustion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Jun 18 16:14:49 2014
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From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <CFC76590.5F405%Lee@asgard.org>
Date: Wed, 18 Jun 2014 13:09:16 -0700
To: Lee Howard <lee@asgard.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> 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.
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> Lee
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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
