[108638] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: spurring transition to ipv6 -- make it faster
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skywing)
Tue Oct 14 16:01:40 2008
From: Skywing <Skywing@valhallalegends.com>
To: Niall Donegan <niall@moybella.net>, Scott Doty <scott@sonic.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 15:01:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: <48F4F953.3010906@moybella.net>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Actually, I seem to recall some postings to the list stating that many of t=
he popular bittorrent clients already do IPv6 if available. So that would =
seem to be a good recipe for allowing P2P users to prioritize ahead of regu=
lar traffic.
- S
-----Original Message-----
From: Niall Donegan [mailto:niall@moybella.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 14, 2008 3:56 PM
To: Scott Doty
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: spurring transition to ipv6 -- make it faster
Scott Doty wrote:
> After all, if most p2p traffic is v4, prioritizing ipv6 (as a general
> concept) should improve the user experience.
How long do you think it will take for the P2P software authors to
transition over to IPv6? I'll bet that P2P users will be a lot more
likely to use IPv6 over Aunt May checking her email once a day.
Niall.
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