[121408] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Durand, Alain)
Sun Jan 17 18:54:55 2010
Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 18:54:02 -0500
From: "Durand, Alain" <alain_durand@cable.comcast.com>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100117180117.GA26757@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 1/17/10 1:01 PM, "Leo Bicknell" <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
But, i am legitimately interested in perceived
>> service gaps or issues, given this tightly controlled service
>> definition (web and email).
>
> I think the phones stopped being "tightly controlled" with the
> iPhone and Android phones. They expect generic IP connectivty, and
> are very much not web and e-mail only. Moreso than an IPv6 only
> provider, a web and e-mail only provider would probbaly find
> themselves at a huge disadvantage to a significant and growing
> segment of the market.
+1
I made a number of demonstration of mail and web service on an IPv6-only
workstation back in early 2000, in my Solaris days. Even ten years ago, it
was clear this would not be enough...
- Alain.
