Re: IPv6 is on the marketers radar

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Feb 13, 2011, at 1:33 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:

> In message <000901cbcb22$3cf978a0$b6ec69e0$@org>, "Lee Howard" writes:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Geert Bosch [mailto:bosch () adacore com]
> > >
> > > Honestly, I can't quite see the big deal for home users. I'm using
> > > an Apple Airport Extreme, and setting it up with a IPv6 tunnel from
> >
> > $150?  That's a high-powered device compared to most home gateways.
> >
> > > HE was quite straightforward. Sure, I don't expect the average user
> > > to go through these steps, but they could easily be automated and
> > > rolled out as part of a firmware update (which is a routine matter
> >
> > Yes, if the ISP provided the gateway.  In many markets, they don't.
> > Even if they start now, they would have to convince every customer
> > to swap routers.  And find the capital to pay for them.  And have a
> > system for updating the firmware and configurations of those
> > devices.  Or maybe the customer's going to have to buy a new 
> > gateway, when the one they have is still functioning,  and might 
> > even be brand new.
> >
> > > the foreseeable future, people will have (NATed or not) IPv4
> > > connectivity, so content providers are fine without IPv6. 
> >
> > Depends on the content.  Large-scale NAT is bad for you if you
> > depend on IP geo-location, or use anti-DDOS measures to limit
> > number of connections or bits from a single IP address, or use
> > IP address to report abuse, or blacklist IP addresses, or log the
> > user's IP address, or try to enforce copyright by reporting IP
> > addresses of violators, or rate-limit outbound data per address,
> > or record unique visitors by IP address.
> > It might also increase latency, but probably not so much that
> > you'd panic.
>
> And a lot of that depends upon how you implement LSN.
> * LSN per pop or a uber mega LSN?
> * How many customers per address? 2 or 200?
Most LSNs will probably be regional collections of LSN boxes
that are (somewhat randomly) load balanced.

Owen