[141222] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why no IPv6-only day (Was: Protocol-41 is not the only tunneling
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Mon Jun 6 17:23:49 2011
To: Jason Fesler <jfesler@gigo.com>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 06 Jun 2011 07:36:45 MST."
<alpine.BSF.2.00.1106060732190.68892@goat.gigo.com>
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2011 07:23:24 +1000
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
In message <alpine.BSF.2.00.1106060732190.68892@goat.gigo.com>, Jason Fesler wr
ites:
> > But anyway, just consider it: a portion of the major websites go
> > IPv6-only for 24 hours. What happens is that well, 99% of the populace
> > can't reach them anymore, as the known ones are down, they start calling
> > and thus overloading the helpdesks of their ISPs.
>
> Won't happen this year or next. Too much money at stake for the web
> sites. Only when IPv4 is single digits or less could this be even
> remotely considered. Even the 0.05% hit for a day was controverial at
> $dayjob.
IPv4 will never reach those figures. IPv6 isn't preferenced enough for
that to happen and IPv6-only sites have methods of reaching IPv4 only
sites (DS-Lite, NAT64/DNS64).
--
Mark Andrews, ISC
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PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: marka@isc.org
