[97027] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 Deployment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Heutte)
Wed May 30 20:29:43 2007
From: Fred Heutte <aoxomoxoa@sunlightdata.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:27:37 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
This is more in the way of a leading question for those who are
attending NANOG 40.
I'll ask it the same way I did at NZNOG back in February --
what problem is it that IPv6 is actually supposed to solve?=0B
=0B
I used to know the answer to this, but I don't now. In 1997
(or even years before, reading Scott Bradner's eloquent advocacy
for it back then) it would have been: address space, security,
extensions, QOS. But it seems to me these have either been
sidestepped, addressed somewhat, or the benefits have not
overcome the costs in a clear business case sense.
As I said -- my purpose in posing this is to stimulate=
discussion
at Bellevue. It was the most interesting thing talked about at
Palmerston North, at least until the cold beer arrived.
fh
