You took your time getting here Popper!
IPv6 capability is a mandatory part of DOCSIS 3 only I think, none of the others. Multicast though has been knocking about since 1.1 but a cable company with an interest in selling you TV is hardly going to bust a gut to get you to use HSI bandwidth on video
The executive penny pincher is actually the guy who launched the higher upstream trials with a statement he made a few months about about 10Mbps upstream trials to keep up with BT's NGA services
