[103034] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andrew Burnette)
Thu Mar 13 14:59:52 2008
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:58:40 -0400
From: Andrew Burnette <acb@acb.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <slrn4fmb8gnc00100.fnb.stu@bootes.spacehopper.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2008-03-13, David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org> wrote:
>> What is
>> _really_ missing is content accessible over IPv6 as it results in the
>> chicken-or-egg problem: without content, few customers will request
>> IPv6.
>
> There are already things like http://ipv6.google.com/, though
> content which is _only_ available over IPv6 is probably more likely
> to stimulate demand.
>
>
But there's no $$ benefit for being either the chicken or the egg.
The carriers (many still with oversized debt loads) don't see any
advantage for deployment in a general sense. But they'll likely have an
easier time than access providers.
it's a 'no thanks, but I need more address space' for many of the access
providers, given the orders of magnitude of ports, customers, customer
care, billing systems and so on that may have to be updated to handle
yet another layer in their networks.
And content providers without an audience are just toying around. Maybe
they'll have the easiest time. hard to say.
It's almost like the volunteer line, where everyone else in line has to
step back so that someone gets stuck being first doing the dirty work.
Same for the end user. They don't care how a microwave oven works, they
simply toss in a bag, press the popcorn button and expect results.
regards,
andy
