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Re: misunderstanding scale

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tore Anderson)
Sat Mar 22 14:51:02 2014

Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:50:33 +0100
From: Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
In-Reply-To: <532DC580.8060901@foobar.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@nanog.org>
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* Nick Hilliard

> the level of pain
> associated with continued deployment of ipv4-only services is still nowhere
> near the point that ipv6 can be considered a viable alternative.

This depends on who you're asking; as a blanket statement it's
demonstrably false: For the likes of T-Mobile USA¹ and Facebook², or
even myself³, IPv6-only isn't just an «alternative». It's «happening».

[1]
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/TMobile-Goes-IPv6-Only-on-Android-44-Devices-126506
[2]
https://www.dropbox.com/s/doazzo5ygu3idna/WorldIPv6Congress-IPv6_LH%20v2.pdf
[3] http://www.ipspace.net/IPv6-Only_Data_Centers

Tore


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