Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable

Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by myself248 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:28PM (#33897251)

I propose a real simple solution:

Major providers pledge to take this seriously. They toss a rule in their routers that just drops all ipv4, for 1 minute, starting at noon UTC. At 12:01 UTC, revert the change and ipv4 works again. Do this every day.

The following week, up it to 2 minutes.

The incentive will happen.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by hanche on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @01:45PM (#33898370)

Or as a friend of mine suggested, more than ten years ago and only half in jest, I think: just block all porn sites on IPv4 (but not on IPv6). The demand for IPv6 will soon be overwhelming.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by temp2022acc on Thursday December 08, 2022 @10:19AM (#33908724)

That's a novel tactic, love it!

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by jl6 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:40PM (#33897429)

Of course it’s simple if you have the capability to compel coordinated action across a globally-distributed disparate-and-not-easily-definable group of stakeholders whose incentives typically do not align.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by rhacker on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @12:45PM (#33897528)

While I think this would effectively move the needle, as soon as they announce that this is going to happen, I am guessing heart monitors, ankle brace companies (people in home jail) and a slew of weird other use cases will pop up as major problems and the effort will fail.

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Re:Tell HN: IPv6-only still pretty much unusable by myself248 on Wednesday December 07, 2022 @03:08PM (#33899539)

All of those things should be able to cope with a 1-minute loss of connectivity already. To do otherwise would be astonishingly negligent.

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