[97620] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Thu Jun 28 13:31:38 2007
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:16:28 -0700
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Cc: Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <p06240813c2a98db44b5b@[172.28.176.102]>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> Interoperability is achieved by having public facing
> servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6.
that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator.
but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a path
where data from/in both protocols is supported on every link of the
chain that goes all the way to every bit of back end data in your
system. and if one link in that chain is missing, <sound of glib idea
imploding>.
randy
