On Saturday April 02 2016 08:32, you wrote to Tony Langdon:
TL>> The problem there is 95% or more of customers have never heard of TL>> IPv6, let alone know what it is and why they would want it. :(
RM> I could get it natively, but only at the price of going DS-Lite, and RM> loosing my public v4 address.
RM> I am not willing to do that.
I fully understand. Th irony is that those who are aware of IPv6, the geeks, are also the ones who are very reluctant to let go of their public IP4 address yet. Auntie Mildred and uncle Harry may be quit satisfied with Ds-lite and they may never notice that their IPv4 connection is not an end to end connection. But we want full dual stack. For now at least.
That is why I say the ISPs should have rolled out IPv6 five years ago. Back then there was no shortage of IPv4 yet and they could have given everyone dual stack. Had they started five years ago, the child diseases would have been fixed and the whole world or at least the largest part would have been on IPv6, so that the most of the guys like us would not need a public IPv4 address any more.
We now have 42 IPv6 capable nodes in Fidonet. If the situation were the reverse: i.e. there were only 42 nodes that could not be reached using IPv6, then I could do without a public IPv4 address and happily live with a DS-Lite connection.
As it is, it seems I am one of the few lucky ones that will still get a dual stack connection. Here two major cable companies UPC and Ziggo have done a merger. The continue undert the name of Ziggo. Ipv6 is being rolled out. But here is difference between the region formerly covered by UPC and the region covered by the old Ziggo. Former UPC gets DS-lite, former Ziggo gets dual stack. I am in the old Ziggo region.
Ziggo has been telling they will roll out IPv6 "later this year"for the last five years. Itseem that now they are actual;ly doing it and I have a little bit of hope that "this year" will actually be 2016.
