Good ${greeting_time}, Andrew!

26 Oct 2019 03:19:02, you wrote to Michiel van der Vlist:

 MV>> Rumour has it that IPv6 willbe mandatory for ISPs by jan 2020.
 MV>> The first country in the world to do so.
 AL> It will be interesting seeing if this mandate has any effect on
 AL> IPv6 adoption rates. After all, they can require the ISP to offer
 AL> it, but they can hardly force the end users to use it. There will
 AL> be some that continue to ignore the issue as long as the things
 AL> they want to do are still working without it.

Here (both in R45 and R50) is a strong demand for publicly accessible IP 
addresses (regardless of whether they would be IPv4 or IPv6), mostly for 
bittorrent (and other P2P) files exchange.

I guess Russia would be the next :-)


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