[address-policy-wg] AW: [ipv6-wg] DRAFT: RIPE Community Resolution on IPv4 Depletion and Deployment of IPv6

michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
> IPv6 is a software upgrade.

Michael, you've got quite the talent for coming up with vacuous sound-bites
like this.

It is true that if:

- you have an CPE device which is designed to be upgraded (lots of early
CPE devices weren't)
- the CPE device has enough flash and RAM to run ipv6
- there is actually an ipv6 capable image for your CPE device, which
assumes that your CPE device is still supported by its manufacturer
- this ipv6 upgrade image is stable enough for production use
- you are clued in enough to be able to upgrade your CPE device
- your ISP can afford the time to support the reconfiguration of your
device via its support mechanism,

... then IPv6 is a software upgrade.

If any of these is not true, you're way off into uncharted territory.

Obviously, it's always going to be possible to buy your way out of this
sort of problem, but how are you going to explain this to Joe and Jane
Knucklehead who want teh intarweb for their kids' school projects, Jane's
IM with her sister in OZ and Joe's late night pr0n sessions, and who have
no knowledge whatever in any meaningful sense about what ipv6 is and how it
could make their life any better, and that now they have to fork out €60
for another ADSL modem when their current one works just fine, thank you
very much.


Nick

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