[158509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Remaining IPv6 hurdles (Was: Programmers...)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Nov 30 20:13:05 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2012 01:12:43 +0000
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On Dec 1, 2012, at 6:09 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote:
> Japan and South Korea are doing quite well indeed
I guess that depends upon how one defines 'quite well', heh. They're certa=
inly ahead of other countries in the region with regards to IPv6, but it's =
questionable how deeply/broadly it is both available and utilized by their =
user bases. And AFAICT, the emphasis is on clients, not servers.
> and China has CERNET of course which is doing mostly IPv6.
But which does not serve China's user base.
> Can you divulge some of these hurdles? Would be interesting to know what =
they are running into.
Architectural issues, operational issues, educational issues, organizationa=
l issues, resiliency issues, scalability issues, security issues, economic =
issues, layer-8, etc. If one encounters significant challenges in designin=
g, building, and operating an IPv4 network, one is unlikely to expend a sig=
nificant amount of time and resources on IPv6.
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