Re: UKNOF failings
>If consumers were told "don't buy any new kit that doesn't support IPv6" and it was sold as a feature of the internet connection as a means of solving the horrid mess of nat and port forwarding, maybe we could make progress.
You are missing the point, NAT and Port forwarding are under the hood tech that most consumers have zero knowledge of.
IPv6 needs to be sold to consumers in ways similar to 5G: There is very little in 5G that is of benefit to Consumers (there was an ElReg article a while back that did a nice list of the "benefits" of 5G), however, you can bet that consumers will be wanting 5G phones because they perceive them to somehow be better than 3G and 4G phones. So an upgrade to IPv6 needs to incorporate things that, like 5G, are network enhancements (eg. increased frequency bands) that can be sold to consumers.
Remember for some years now Windows, Android and iOS/macOS have supported and had IPv6 enabled out-of-the-box (aside: you can't turn IPv6 off in iOS or Android), so for consumers the issue is getting them to go out and buy the IPv6 enabled ISP service because they perceive it to somehow be better than the IPv4 service and for all their (consumer) devices to just work.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
