[75267] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Tue Nov 9 19:05:21 2004
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 02:04:48 +0200 (EET)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20041109230004.GA60419@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 9 Nov 2004, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> As long as IPv4 exists, which I predict will be a long time, the
> "protocol designers" which are really application developers for
> your purposes, will write to the lowest common denominator. [...]
>
> So with the protocols still designed to work over IPv4 NAT, [...]
Not quite true. With the coming of IPv6 (+NAT traversing technologies
requiring only little of the network, like Teredo) in large scale to
the home desktops (think Windows XP SP2), it's quite conceivable we're
going to have large-scale v6-only applications relatively soon -- for
the cases where the application in question would not have to deal
with NAT traversal logic at all if it were to choose v6-only approach.
--
Pekka Savola "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy kingdom bleeds."
Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
