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Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Nov 26 19:47:26 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 00:47:02 +0000
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On Nov 27, 2012, at 7:27 AM, Cutler James R wrote:
> Have you looked at the current Apple software? It pretty much "just work=
s" on IPv6.
Yes, but it doesn't do or enable anything via IPv6 that it doesn't do or en=
able via IPv4.
> This also automatically brings along IPv6 capabilities.
Capabilities <> deployment.
Again, the most energy almost all enterprise IT departments are putting int=
o IPv6 is to include an undefined 'IPv6-capable' checkbox on RFPs. That's =
it.
> What they do care about is reliable sharing of gossip, pictures, and vide=
os. They also care about reliable video chats with friends and family.=20
And it is these 'killer apps' which have driven the global deployment of IP=
v4 and the growth of the modern commercial IPv4-based public Internet, as w=
ell as the near-universal adoption of IPv4 transport within private network=
s.
The huge economic benefits of mobile voice and data connectivity are the re=
asons behind its spectacular growth and increasing ubiquity. Mobile voice =
and data allow people to do things that they simply couldn't do before, and=
to do things which they didn't even view as possibilities before.
My contention is that in order for IPv6 to become widely deployed within an=
y foreseeable time-frame, it may well prove that there must be some content=
/services/applications which are a) greatly desired by users and b) only av=
ailable via/possible with IPv6 in order to provide the requisite economic s=
timulus.
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