[182211] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hotels/Airports with IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jared Mauch)
Mon Jul 13 10:10:21 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2015 10:07:50 -0400
From: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.Nether.net>
To: Lee Howard <Lee@asgard.org>
In-Reply-To: <D1C93D8C.B8257%Lee@asgard.org>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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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 didnšt 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. Donšt 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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