[BBLISA] Last night's IPv6 talk

[Bill Bogstad]

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 11:23 PM, Edward Ned Harvey
<bblisa3 at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>
> Also, they know approximately how long their routers last at peoples’
> homes.  So they’re planning the slow and systematic upgrade strategy.  I
> have good reason to believe, for my house on FiOS, they only need to push
> out a firmware upgrade when they want to.  But a lot of people are still
> living on “the shark fin” or similar devices.  Old, archaic cable and DSL
> modems that haven’t been replaced in a decade.  The ISP’s want people to get
> as much life out of these things as physically possible, to avoid the
> upgrade expense.

FYI, the current standard for cable modems (DOCSIS 3.0 released in
2006) requires IPv6 support.   OTOH, there seem to be plenty of cable
modems still on the market which only do DOCSIS 2.0.

Bill Bogstad