[97624] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Thu Jun 28 13:51:04 2007
In-Reply-To: <4683ECEC.6050009@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:27:15 -0400
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Cc: Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox@packetrade.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote:
> > 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,
Organizations need to have IPv6 on their DMZ servers.
ISP's needs to provide IPv6 to these organizations, either
directly or via tunnel.
It's actually rather simple.
/John
