[99655] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Access to the IPv4 net for IPv6-only systems, was: Re: WG
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Mon Oct 1 15:29:35 2007
In-Reply-To: <9850.1191265862@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 15:25:34 -0400
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
From: John Curran <jcurran@mail.com>
Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
At 3:11 PM -0400 10/1/07, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
>So it boils down to "Do you think that once that camel has gotten its nose
>into the tent, he'll ever actually leave?".
>
>(Consider that if (for example) enough ISPs deploy that sort of migration
>tool, then Amazon has no incentive to move to IPv6, and then the ISP is stuck
>keeping it around because they don't dare turn off Amazon).
If indeed one believes that's there more functionality for having
end-to-end IPv6, then presumably their competitors will roll out
services which make use of these capabilities, and Amazon will
feel some pressure to follow.
Operating through NAT-PT is not very exciting and it's not going
to take much (e.g. quality video support) to cause major content
providers to want to have native end-to-end communication.
Amazingly, it creates an actual motivation for existing IPv4 content
sites to considering adding IPv6 support, which is something we've
lacked to date.
/John
