[64589] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [arin-announce] IPv4 Address Space (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Tue Oct 28 15:40:42 2003
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 22:35:07 +0200
From: Petri Helenius <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Kuhtz, Christian" <christian.kuhtz@BELLSOUTH.COM>
Cc: Michel Py <michel@arneill-py.sacramento.ca.us>, william@elan.net,
Andy Dills <andy@xecu.net>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <DDA33D0260634241B611579903A1741608884F56@01al10015010045.ad.bls.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Kuhtz, Christian wrote:
>I'm not saying IPv6 is dead, but I think a leap, rather than an incremental
>improvement may be needed. Unless somebody actually does come up with an
>IPv6 killer app...
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>
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Most Internet traffic is p2p traffic. IPv6 (by virtue of eliminating
most perceived needs for NAT devices)
increases the efficiency of p2p traffic. So implementing IPv6 will
improve the efficiency of the Internet.
No need for a new killer app, the old one will suffice.
Pete
