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|    Alexey Vissarionov to Andrew Leary    |
|    IPv6 mandatory in Belarus?    |
|    26 Oct 19 14:30:30    |
   
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   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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