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?

2^32 ips

[Anonymous Coward]

ought to be enough for anybody

The border routers

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

What BT Stands For

[manlygeek]

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.

Re:Internet in the UK will fall over...

[Gizzmonic]

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!

Re:2^32 ips

[Artraze]

Oh come on, we've got enough for another 2 or 3 years. Who knows what could happen in that time! Global Warming disasters, World War III, you name it! A couple minor setbacks like those, and we could stretch IP4 for another century! They obviously just know something we don't...

IPv4 exhaustion is a myth

[gmuslera]

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).

Re:Internet in the UK will fall over...

[R2.0]

But aside from that, what did the Romans ever do for them?

hey don't worry man

[Colin Smith]

They'll just NAT the world.

 

Offshore IP address drilling

[jassa]

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to IPv4 address exhaustion is offshore IP address drilling, but Obama would rather punish small business owners with outdated equipment!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.

naaahhhhh...this is the plan

[OutOnARock]

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"

[Otis2222222]

Upgrading to an "all-IP" core? What had they been running on? Appletalk? IPX? Banyan Vines? DECnet?

Re:The border routers

[AndrewNeo]

Actually, if everyone but the UK moved to IPv6, wouldn't there be plenty of room in the IPv4 space just for them?

Re:Upgrading "to an all-IP core"

[zoefff]

sdh, atm, pdh or other transmission protocols. Or even the famous POTS protocol. See your local wiki for more ;-)

Re:Not all users though

[Anonymous Coward]

Yet more FUD?

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...

Re:hey don't worry man

[cjb658]

They'll just NAT the world.

I hope I get to share an IP with an RIAA executive.