[108636] in North American Network Operators' Group
spurring transition to ipv6 -- make it faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Doty)
Tue Oct 14 15:50:06 2008
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 12:49:27 -0700
From: Scott Doty <scott@sonic.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
We've had one presentation on the "unfairness" of p2p traffic, which
(the presenter says) will eventually swamp us.
Then just now, we had the presentation & subsequent discussion re: ipv6
adoption.
Just wondering: what if we gave ipv6 traffic "mucho priority" over ipv4
traffic, then tell our user communities that ipv6 provides a better
quality network experience, including (hopefully) faster page loads, &
lower video game pings?
With such policies in place, folks wouldn't want to stay with the "old,
slow" v4 traffic...and could be a significant selling point.
After all, if most p2p traffic is v4, prioritizing ipv6 (as a general
concept) should improve the user experience.
Anyway, was just an idea, please pardon me if this has been discussed
before, or sounds nutty...
Thanks,
-Scott
