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Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Tue Nov 27 23:29:25 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 04:29:08 +0000
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On Nov 28, 2012, at 11:18 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
> If the entire deployment path automatically requires 84 layers of NAT slu=
dge, that's what gets tested, cause it "works" for "everybody".
Hence my questions regarding the actual momentum behind end-to-end native I=
Pv6 deployment. Inertia is generally only overcome when there's a clear po=
sitive economic benefit to doing so - 'savings', assuming there actually ar=
e any, are a) almost always exaggerated and b) generally not a powerful eno=
ugh incentive to alter the status quo.
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