Subj : Re: finaly for me
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : Tony Langdon
Date : Tue Mar 20 2018 09:32:00

-=> Michiel van der Vlist wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MvV> For starters: 30% of the nodes in my list of IPv6 capable nodes still
 MvV> connect via a tunnel. Setting uo a tunnel certainly requires taking
 MvV> active steps.

True.

 TL> IPv6 may not be automatically enabled in some Fido software (that
 TL> supports it). Network wise, it depends on your ISP.  Mine enables IPv6
 TL> by default and all of the routers they provide support IPv6 out of the
 TL> box, so at the network level it should "just work".

 MvV> Your ISp is a pioneer. Many ISPs around the world are still dragging
 MvV> their feet. So " just work" is still the exception rather than te rule.

Yes, now you know why I chose them!  :-)

 MvV> I have native Dual Stack now for over a year, but my ISP is also one of
 MvV> the slow ones. Plus that now their policy is to go DS -Light. New
 MvV> customers get DS-Light. On request they can be converted ti IPv4 only.
 MvV> That is another spoke in the whell of "just work".

I've just got to 7 years of native dual stack here.

 MvV>> Same here. Plus that when adding new links and having to make a
 MvV>> choice, I prefer to link to the IPv6 capable node over linking
 MvV>> to the IPv4 only node.

 TL> Me too, I think around 50% of my upstream links have IPv6 here.

 MvV> Same here, around 50%. In future, I may even drop some IPv4 only links
 MvV> to up the percentage. ;-)

That's not an option, the IPv4 uplinks are sole providers for othernets. :) 
While I'm a big supporter of IPv6, it's not the hill I choose to die on. :)


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