[arin-ppml] How hard is it to transition to IPv6?

[Joel Jaeggli]

Martin Hannigan wrote:
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> On Tue, Mar 31, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Joel Jaeggli <joelja at bogus.com
> <mailto:joelja at bogus.com>> wrote:
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>     Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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>     > What the problem is that it's hard to convince someone that the
>     > device they have had for the last 5 years that's still working
>     > perfectly, will not get support from the manufacturer for upgrades.
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>     Actually it's not, and in most case the adoption will be driven by the
>     same things it was last time. ie more speed  on the wan from your *dsl
>     platform docsis 3.0 or ftth deployment or on the lan side from 802.11n
>     or gigabit ethernet, the trick always is sneak the new software support
>     in with some things the customer really think they want... How many of
>     us are still using the same cpe we were using in the era of 256K dsl
>     service?
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> That's a costly trick. Try a capex program to replace all CPE so that
> every customers has chip sets that support 3.0 and DOCSIS. It all sounds
> nice on paper, but it isn't.

It doesn't sound nice on paper. It sounds messy, imperfect, likely to
move at different rates in different providers/regions/customers. It
will be subject to postive and negative network effects. The technology
lifecycle of some of the newer components may be shorter than we'd like,
while the older one's may in fact last longer than we think they should.
This is normal.

I expect we'll still be having this discussion in the context of some
other feature we think end-users or operators need to deploy in march of
2019...

> -M<
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