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On Sun, 27 May 2007, Martin Hannigan wrote: > On 5/26/07, Chris L. Morrow <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 26 May 2007, Jared Mauch wrote: > > > > > on things, could cost some money. I'd love to see google or Y! with > > > an AAAA record. Or even Microsoft ;) > > > > i agree 100%, which is why I posted something similar almost 2 years ago > > now :( It'd be very good to get some actual content on v6 that the masses > > want to view/use. > > > > Isn't the driver going to be scarcity and/or expense of v4 addresses? honestly I have no idea... at this point (15 yrs into the process) there has to be SOME reason, its just not clear which one it will be. Scarcity of v4 addresses might just mean more and more NAT gets deployed... or it could mean that v6 starts to show up on content provider networks. I doubt there will be a network that is only ipv6 and successful anytime soon, there simply is no content of consequence available only via v6 today (heck, there's no consequential content available on v6 AND v4 currently). I think that it is in most folks interest to get some familarity with and experience with the coming change, before it's on the critical path. Using Google as an example, if they don't have v6 deployed/testing today and tomorrow a portion (sizable enough for them to notice) of their userbase moves to mostly v6 access methods (say v6 only transport with some v6->v4 gateway) they may feel pressured into deploying v6 access to their services without proper testing/scaling/management. That could be messy... One of the things that came back as interesting (to me) from the thread 2 years ago was that adding a v6 vif to the content wasn't the scary part. What was scary was the OSS/backend/metrics/management parts that all needed to understand what ipv6 addresses were. I wonder if google-analytics understands ipv6 yet? In short Marty, I'm not sure what the driving factor will be, I'm not holding out hope that it's v4 depletion though.
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