[97674] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Andy Davidson)
Fri Jun 29 09:30:09 2007
In-Reply-To: <20070629092310.V14682@calis.blacksun.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
From: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:27:33 +0100
To: Donald Stahl <don@calis.blacksun.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 29 Jun 2007, at 14:24, Donald Stahl wrote:
>> That's the thing .. google's crawlers and search app runs at layer
>> 7, v6 is an addressing system that runs at layer 3. If we'd (the
>> community) got everything right with v6, it wouldn't matter to
>> Google's applications whether the content came from a site hosted
>> on a v4 address, or a v6 address, or even both.
> If Google does not have v6 connectivity then how are they going to
> crawl those v6 sites?
I think we're debating from very similar positions...
v6 isn't the ideal scenario of '96 extra bits for free', because if
life was so simple, we wouldn't need to ask this question.
Andy
