Anarchy in the UK?

[Alex Brooks]

On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Erik Kline <ek at google.com> wrote:
> Does anyone know what BT's plans are WRT IPv6?

Yup,

BT already provide IPv6 for businesses who wants it (and pays extra),
see http://www.ipv6.bt.com/.You can peer with them at
http://www.bt.net/cgi-bin/peering-request?mode=ipv6 but note the huge
warning that it is a 'trial' only.

It's still not a 'standard' offering though, which is the problem - it
seems that it might become more standard in the '2013/2014 financial
year'.

If you are referring to home broadband, it's a different story; until
fairly recently it was impossible to get an IPv6 connection over their
ADSL service; even if you were an ISP paying for a PPP tunnel.
Details are at http://aaisp.net.uk/news-ipv6.html (it's an interesting
read).  At the moment, BT even actively try and break 6to4 over their
own home broadband connections
(http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/csc/people/computingstaff/jaroslaw_zachwieja/bt_fttc_ipv6/).

There is no official word from BT as to when (or if) they will
actually push out IPv6 addresses to end users; though it does seem
that other ISPs know something that we don't.  TalkTalk (3rd biggest
ISP in the country?) recently managed to get a hold of a *lot* of
addresses in the 2.* range, specifically so they don't have to worry
about running out of them, as such they have no plans at all to
implement IPv6 connectivity.

Ultimately, as BT are such a major provider of services in the
country, right from POTS services to renting dark fibre lines, until
they actually support IPv6 across their portfolio more easily no-one
major in the UK is going to bother with it - it's just too difficult.

It's not good at all.

Alex