Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

[Carlos Friacas <cfriacas () fccn pt>]

Hi,


On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, Todd Underwood wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 06:16:37PM -0700, Fred Baker wrote:
> > On Jun 30, 2005, at 5:37 PM, Todd Underwood wrote:
> > > where is the service that is available only on IPv6? i can't seem to
> > > find it.
> >
> > You might ask yourself whether the Kame Turtle is dancing at
> > http://www.kame.net/. This is a service that is *different* (returns a
> > different web page) depending on whether you access it using IPv6 or
> > IPv4.
>
> heh.  i guess i'll have to live without the dancing turtle, and so
> will all the other Internet users.  i wonder what other useful content
> is not available on the real Internet and only available via ipv6.  i

"the real internet" is v4 and v6. the v6 subset is atm a very small one, 
but there are no doubts about its existence. Some ASes are starting to be 
dual-stacked, some others are still v4-only.


> keep asking this question and keep getting non-answers like this.

the idea is not to have contents that are unavailable through ipv4.
IPv6 is simply a network layer.


> the rest of fred's comment stands with useful information but i'm
> still looking for the tipping point where people migrate, en-masse,
> away from the Internet to this new, incompatible network.

that's not really the idea. the idea is to build a dual-stack global 
internet (which in its v6 part will be a more scalable and extendable 
one).
imho, flag days are generally a bad idea...


Regards,

./Carlos
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