IETF Mulls Working Group For IPv6 Home Networking

alphadogg writes "The Internet Engineering Task Force is considering establishing a working group to smooth some of the impending issues around setting up and maintaining IPv6-based Internet connections in homes. 'A collection of protocols needs to be agreed upon, so vendors of equipment used in home networks will have an interoperable suite of protocols available,' said Ralph Droms, a distinguished engineer for Cisco and among those who want to form the IETF working group. Home networking is a fairly new area for the IETF. Many of its standards were designed for large-scale organizational networks, rather than home use."

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Re:Huh?

[hairyfeet]

That brings up something I've been wondering for awhile...how long should a government allow "designed for the dump" products be brought in before saying no? Because IIRC they had rules with regards to digital tuners in TVs for a decent amount of time before the switch, yet here we are officially out of IPv4 addresses and still the vast majority of routers on NewEgg have NO IPv6 and most likely never will. In fact short of the expensive Apple offerings I don't think there is a single consumer router on NewEgg that supports IPv6.

Now since we know that when the switch does finally happen these routers are landfill fodder, shouldn't the government step in and "just say no" to bring in this crap? Because from the looks of it until the government does step in the sub $60 routers are gonna be strictly IPv4.