IPv6 adoption, was: Re: accessible domain registrars

[Janina Sajka]

Yeah, switching off IPv4 certainly educates one quickly. I have that
working mostly. My major problem remaining is the lack of SIP gateways
that can communicate on 6. SipWithUs is the only one, afaik, and they
don't support lnp, and I've had my main phone number for over 22 years
so don't want to change that.


Currently my asterisk is configured via iptables to accept incoming SIP
over IPv4 only from vitelity.net, my gateway service.

I also still accept mail, ftp, and web connections on 4. That's it.

>From my linode server to machines on my LAN is all 6, thanks to the
native /64 block I get from Comcast.


My in house SIP phones talk to my linode Asterisk over 6. Works like a
charm. There's absolutely no NAT on my LAN, Hallelujah!

6 adoption is moving forward, like it or not. Exhaustation of 4
addresses will drive that. There just aren't any more to be had, except
when someone turns one in. MIT is finally dumping some of it's Class A
block of 4 addresses, which kept it out of 6 this long.

Most people aren't aware how much of their chatter goes over 6 as things
stand. Both Windows and Apple default to 6 when they can. If you have a
Nest thermostat installed, it's phoning home (to Nest servers) over 6
right through any firewall you might have up.

Janina

Gregory Nowak writes:
> It's sad too that the same thing which was pushing digital TV adoption
> in the U.S. forward seems to be holding IPv6 adoption back
> ... money. I saw someone comment a few years ago now that one way to
> push IPv6 adoption forward is for all social media sites to switch off
> their IPv4 connections. That would probably do it more than anything
> else (huge grin).
> 
> Greg
>  
> 
> On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 10:33:43AM -0500, Janina Sajka wrote:
> > Or these guys, either.
> > 
> > Maybe IPv6 isn't something some of us care about, but it's getting
> > awfully late in the IPv4 game to ignore 6, especially as IPv4 address
> > space in North America have been exhausted for over two years now.
> > 
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv4_address_exhaustion
> 
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Janina Sajka

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The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)
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