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Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion AND Transition to IPv6

  • From: Douglas Otis
  • Date: Thu Jun 28 14:27:01 2007


On Jun 28, 2007, at 10:06 AM, chuck goolsbee wrote:


6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among small actors to achieve such leadership.

You left out: The "killer-app."

Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. The IPv-ONLY google/porn/web/tube/iphone/whatever that enough people want/desire/need/are-willing-to-pay-for to move the network to IPv6.

Would that be Teredo and a proprietary PNRP?

http://blogs.msdn.com/p2p/archive/2007/03/22/teredo-and-the-pnrp- global-cloud.aspx

Figuring out how maintain security without a hierarchical namespace, or a trackable address space represent sizable concerns. Would controlling teredo.ipv6.microsoft.com become essential?

-Doug