[121407] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Durand, Alain)
Sun Jan 17 18:48:31 2010
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:47:19 -0500
From: "Durand, Alain" <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: Cameron Byrne <cb.list6@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <bcff0fba1001170859p569cc77fxf83f4b676a6af7c3@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/17/10 11:59 AM, "Cameron Byrne" <cb.list6@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's unfortunate for me that nobody is interested in talking about the
> question I asked in light of the data i supplied. The question being,
> is it possible for a mobile operator to offer an IPv6-only service
> today to casual Internet users on new devices with new service plans?
> Perhaps it is just a rhetorical question because the video obviously
> shows it is possible. But, i am legitimately interested in perceived
> service gaps or issues, given this tightly controlled service
> definition (web and email).
I would hope my last emails start to address this point. The single most
impediment I see to deploy IPv6-only networks is the combined effect of the
2 long tails: on one side, the content is today mostly IPv4-only accessible,
making it a disincentive to build v6-only access network, and on the other
side, the apps are for the vast majority IPv4 centric, making it a
disincentive to offer content over IPv6, to build an Ipv6 capable device
that cannot use those apps or to build v6-only access networks in the first
place...
This realization was the starting point of the development of the DS-lite
technology.
- Alain.
