[158233] in North American Network Operators' Group
Fwd: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Cutler James R)
Mon Nov 26 19:27:21 2012
From: Cutler James R <james.cutler@consultant.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 19:27:00 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 11/26/2012 03:18 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> Apple and Microsoft are application developers as well as OS vendors. =
How much of a priority do you think IPv6 capabilities are to their =
application development organizations? How much of a priority do you =
think IPv6 capabilities are to their customer bases?
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> How much of a priority do you think IPv6 capabilities are for =
corporate IT departments, beyond a checklist item on RFPs in order to =
CYA?
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> Where are the IPv6-only SQL Server deployments within enterprises, for =
example? In fact, where are the IPv6-enabled client access LANs within =
enterprises? Or even the *plans* for these types of =
deployments/capabilities?
How much of a priority? I would say lots for Apple. Have you looked at =
the current Apple software? It pretty much "just works" on IPv6. IPv6 =
is on by default on end systems. Airport Extreme is listed as IPv6 =
compatible by, among other companies, Comcast. In Terminal, open an New =
Remote Connection to another Mac, do netstat -f inet6 and see that it is =
an IPv6 connection. Actually, it is more than a priority. It is pretty =
much a done deal.
As for corporate IT departments, it depends on whether management is =
measured on monthly cash flow or by long term growth. I must note that =
many corporate IT departments have evolved from "No one gets fired for =
buying IBM." to "One might get fired for not buying Microsoft." This =
also automatically brings along IPv6 capabilities.
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Elsewhere it has been said that end users don't care about IPv6. Well, =
that is generally true. They also don't care about IPv4, DOCSIS 3, ATM, =
PPPOE, and lots of other technical acronyms. What they do care about is =
reliable sharing of gossip, pictures, and videos. They also care about =
reliable video chats with friends and family.=20
To meet these expectations in a long term cost-effective manner, it =
behooves us network and content providers to remove all IPv4-forced =
hacks impeding easy end-system to end-system connections like all those =
'wonderful' variants of NAT and artificially high pricing for IPv6. =
When the marketing folks begins to treat IPv6 as a sales enabler rather =
than a fanciful cost item, then we may see accelerated deployment of =
IPv6 alongside IPv4.
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