The SIDN is of the opinion that the provision of ipv6 under the legislation is that the net neutrality in the Netherlands must arrange. This allows internet service providers (isps still not offer ipv6, to be forced to make haste with the implementation of the protocol.
The statement that ipv6 may be required on the basis of the statutory rules regarding net neutrality is stated by Maarten Simon, lawyer of the SIDN, in an interview with ComputerWorld. Simon acknowledges that an ipv6 requirement for an ‘unintended effect’ of the legislation. “At the same time is a nice way to finally make progress in the transition from the old ipv4 to the new ipv6 protocol,” said the lawyer. A liability would be by the Authority Consumer & Market enforced.
Xs4all, which as the only major provider ipv6 on the consumer market supplies, the SIDN. The isp states that for example start-ups in the near future, would benefit from such obligation, as they first only via ipv6 accessible. If these companies for an ipv4 user does not have to ask, does the net neutrality issue, according to Xs4all.
Responses from other stakeholders are varied. Internet corporation ISOC Netherlands states that any obligation is difficult to enforce, partly because the roll-out of ipv6 is complex and comprehensive. Internetjurist Arnoud Engelfriet will also see little in the imposition of ipv6 from the legislation and believe that customers of providers automatically go to complain or even change, when parts of the internet for them unreachable by a lax attitude of the isp.
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