[140593] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Yahoo and IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Sat May 14 12:48:38 2011
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 16:47:46 +0000
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Matthew Kaufman <matthew@matthew.at> writes:
>> My Desktop is not able to make any IPv4 socket connections anymore. I get
>> "Protocol not supported". So there are IPv6-only users, already bitten by
>> no AAAA. So that's -1 from me.
>
> Sounds to me like you're not on The Internet any more.
in <http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2001-04/msg00294.html> we see:
(*2) Q: But what IS the Internet?
A: "It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive, transitive,
symmetric, closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP
packet from'". Seth Breidbart
by which definition, matthew's observation would be correct. folks who want
to run V6 only and still be "on the internet" will need proxies for a long
while. folks who want to run V6 only *today* and not have any proxies *today*
are sort of on their own -- the industry will not cater to market non-forces.
--
Paul Vixie
KI6YSY
