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A comment on RFC 7540 – HTTP2. Parent comment

Re:RFC 7540 – HTTP2 by dtech on Friday May 15, 2015 @06:00AM (#9549701)
You mean IPv6? That suffers from exactly the same problem: ISP's just don't give a damn and don't roll it out.

You cannot expect your average internet user to know about these things, so they get away with it.

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Re:RFC 7540 – HTTP2 by nly on Friday May 15, 2015 @10:18AM (#9550715)
Major residential ISPs aren't rolling out IPv6 largely because they already have enough IPv4 space for their customers.

Take a major UK ISP like Virgin Media. According to Hurricane Electrics BGP looking glass project they are originating 9.4M IPv4 addresses[0], however, at the end of 2012, according to Wikipedia[1], they only had 4.8M customers.

[0] http://bgp.he.net/AS5089#_asinfo [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Media

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Re:RFC 7540 – HTTP2 by georgerobinson on Friday May 15, 2015 @06:38PM (#9554113)
Virgin Media can't even expand that easily because they must lay cable in areas that weren't covered by NTL/Telewest infrastructure: and I believe is extremely expensive and time consuming with planning permission being what it is.
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