Re: [v6ops] Re: [Witarea] Re: How to make an elegant IPv4 outage

Tim Chown <[email protected]> Fri, 12 Jun 2026 09:32:50 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.general,gmane.ietf.tsv-area,gmane.ietf.v6ops
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Perhaps we need to start draft-v6ops-ipv6-dinosaurs and start to name and s=
hame such organisations and what they=92re doing wrong=85 polite but object=
ive critique and pointers in the doc to best practice.

Tim

On 11/06/2026, 21:03, "Phillip Hallam-Baker" <[email protected]> wrote:

Just got off the phone with a very large ISP after a failed attempt to get =
an IPv6 address.

Turns out that I can have IPv6 but only dynamic and only if I am on dynamic=
 IPv4. I cannot get IPv6 for my service with static IPv4 addresses.

Seems to me that we are still a long way away from being able to shutter IP=
v4 completely.

What I have not yet tried but should is trying to use the IPv6 mapping of m=
y IPv4 addresses.

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