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No IPv6 For UK Broadband Users
BT (the incumbent telephone company in the United Kingdom) are in the process of spending millions of pounds on upgrading their network to an all-IP core. However, they have failed to consider 21st Century protocol support, preferring to insist that IPv4 is enough for everyone. Haven't they noticed the IPv4 exhaustion report yet?
ought to be enough for anybody
Well I'm sure that we can address at border routers with the UK. Since they have to switch all of the bits from the left side to the right side of the tubes, they might as well do 6to4 as well.
Didn't you know that "BT" stands for "Behind the Times?" OTOH, If you insist on IPv6 you get to do lots of tunneling since almost no one else is on it either. Just goes to show you what happens to innovation in the presence of a large userbase and expensive infrastructure.
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Did you know? First century Roman plumbing was actually...surprisingly efficient!
Those Romans brought it to your uncivilized land of drunken fog-priests, and you insult them like that. And I thought British people had a heightened sense of shame!
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from the same alarmist that warned about global warming, market dropping and dodo extintion. Nothing to see here, move along (but not too much, you will hit someone's else IP space).
But aside from that, what did the Romans ever do for them?
"As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
They'll just NAT the world.
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The solution to IPv4 address exhaustion is offshore IP address drilling, but Obama would rather punish small business owners with outdated equipment!
...I think I've been watching too many political conferences/debates.
They'll just NAT the whole country, everybody, behind one honking big firewall and monitor everybody's traffic
At first this was funny, but on review it got a little bit scary.....
Upgrading to an "all-IP" core? What had they been running on? Appletalk? IPX? Banyan Vines? DECnet?
Yet another meaningless use of the term FUD, not reflecting the purpose that it was originally coined for. This has now reached virtually epidemic proportions.
It's almost like there is a conspiracy among those who use it in this was to cause panic, indecision and suspicion - or PIS, as I like to call it - within the public at large...