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Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>
Date: Thu, 4 Oct 2007 14:13:01 +0800
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007, Mike Leber wrote:
So you could write a download accelerator for your browser that checked IPv6 vs IPv4 connectivity and used whichever was faster. With only 3 percent of neworks running IPv6 this idea is a little early, still it would be a hilarious browser plug-in. You could imagine it might even have a little "IPv6 accelerator" icon that shows up in your status bar when you've switched on the nitro. (hehehe, shaving off that extra few ms of latency, yo!)
The evil bastard in me wonders if developers may focus on speeding up IPv6 processing latency vs IPv4 for things like games on desktops, and let the gamers drive the IPv6 adoption. If you're evil you could envision silicon that did ipv4 vs ipv6 packet identification (via ethertype for NICs?) and then "handle" ipv6 packets with less latency. Ok, thats enough humour for this afternoon. Adrian
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- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 William Herrin (Oct 02)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Mark Smith (Oct 02)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 David Conrad (Oct 02)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Paul Vixie (Oct 02)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Mark Smith (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6 Joe Greco (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet Daniel Senie (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet Mike Leber (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet Adrian Chadd (Oct 03)
- Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet Tim Franklin (Oct 04)