World IPv6 Day

[Dom]

Today's the day!

Unfortunately, I didn't sign up with Plusnet's trial for IPv6 (not that my home router supports it anyway, I wouldn't have thought) and Enta only seem to give us an IPv4 address here at work, so nothing's changing for me today.

Is anyone else trying out what does and doesn't work on IPv6 today then? As per my Twatter feed, there's one guy who's decided to let the internet treat his cat, by building the world's first IPv6-enabled cat feeder! (You'll need an IPv6 IP address to use it though.)

[ih8mondays]

Tried my mobile phone this morning, suprise suprise, no IPv6 via vodafone!

Home broadband also doesn't support it - netgear router seems to be IPv4 only.

[rutty]

It's a bit crap that devices don't already support it. IPv6 has been around for well over a decade already - had some servers I worked with back in 2000 and they supported it

[Dom]

Yeah, I would have loved to try and make use of IPv6 and seen what sort of a difference it made, but alas it was no different for me yesterday as it has been any other day.

Sooner or later everyone is going to have to switch though. I don't know why it isn't being pushed harder than it is.

Actually, I do: money. People might complain about the costs of buying new equipment that supports v6, but really it's going to come down to how much money companies will pay to be given the last remaining v4 addresses. You know what the world is like - if there's money to be made from it somehow, it will be. And I envisage people snapping up v4 addresses like some kind of gold rush, in preparation for the millions of pounds that some companies will pay for them, just to guarantee that as many customers as possible can still connect to their services.