[124993] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Apr 8 13:01:55 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <k2w71bfd60c1004080854s6039823fz87da38258e396db6@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 09:54:21 -0700
To: trejrco@gmail.com
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 8, 2010, at 8:54 AM, TJ wrote:
>>=20
>> IPv6-only content won't be meaningful for years yet, and IPv6-only
>> eyeballs will necessarily be given ways to reach v4 for many years
>> to come.
>=20
>=20
> To be fair - IPv6 only content may not exactly be commonplace, but =
there are
> IPv6-only networks out there ... they just tend to consist of "things"
> rather than "people".
>=20
> For the "surfable internet", the chicken-and-egg scenario continues - =
as
> more services get reachable, it should create impetus for users - all =
dual
> stack (hopefully) ... until a threshold is crossed, when it becomes =
more
> feasible to be a general consumer who was IPv6-only (or really bad =
IPv4
> alongside it). I also think "for years" and "for many years" are very
> relative terms :) ...
>=20
>=20
> /TJ
I think that the creation of consumers with IPv6-only or really bad IPv4
along side it will result sooner than any threshold of IPv6-ready =
content
is reached. I think this will be the result of not having IPv4 =
addresses
to give those consumers rather than the result of IPv6 deployment.
Owen
