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Re: who gets a /32 [Re: IPV6 renumbering painless?]

  • From: Christian Kuhtz
  • Date: Mon Nov 15 12:28:53 2004



On 11/15/04 11:03 AM, "Jared Mauch" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:29:25AM -0500, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
>> On 11/15/04 12:18 AM, "Daniel Roesen" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Unfortunate, even today there are not many option of transit ISPs
>>> who have a real native dual-stack deployment (I consider 6PE to be
>>> native)... most have just tunnels inside. Currently I cannot think
>>> of more than... hm... 3-4 ISPs who can deliver real amounts of
>>> native US-EU bandwidth.
>> 
>> What sort of customers do these v6 SP's have for IPv6?  What demands are
>> there for real amounts of IPv6 bandwidth?
> 
> I've historically found that there are a number of FTP
> sites that get congested on IPv4 but are accessable via IPv6 (only).

But that's an artifact... There's no reason rooted in the protocols
themselves (and associated business reasons) as to why that should be a
lasting benefit.  It's merely a reflection of poor capacity management and
idle (under utilized) IPv6 stacked server capacity..

Thanks for playing, though :)..

Regards,
Christian





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