[99743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating demand for IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Abley)
Wed Oct 3 11:34:20 2007
In-Reply-To: <D03E4899F2FB3D4C8464E8C76B3B68B00122152B@E03MVC4-UKBR.domain1.systemhost.net>
Cc: <nanog@nanog.org>
From: Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info>
Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 11:02:04 -0400
To: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 3-Oct-2007, at 1038, <michael.dillon@bt.com> wrote:
>> However, if there was a reasonable translation mechanism
>> available which allowed IPv6-only end systems to access
>> IPv4-only content, I think the picture would look quite
>> different.
>
> Doesn't deploying a 6to4 relay in the content provider network, along
> with IPv6 access to the content provider network, exactly meet this
> requirement?
Oh, now that I actually *read* your text, you're talking about use of
6to4 in content providers, not end systems. Sorry for not noticing
that when I replied just now :-)
6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is surely a solution
to the problem of "I have no good way to acquire IPv6 transit"; it's
not a solution to the problem of deploying dual-stack across content-
serving infrastructure, or the problem of there being near zero
demand for IPv6 content, given that the number of existing IPv6-only
clients is effectively zero.
Joe
