Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

[bmanning () vacation karoshi com]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 01:41:18AM -0400, Durand, Alain wrote:
> John,
>
> Thank you for writing this down, this will help start the discussion.
>
> One of the things that is missing IMHO is that there is no clear vision
> of what the IPv6 Internet will/should looks like. Let me focus on the
> residential
> broadband for a minute, I'm fully aware there are other cases, but let's
> start somewhere.
>
> 1) What is the IPv6 'service'?
>    For example, is it reasonable to define a 'basic' level
>    service as web+mail and an 'extended' service as everything else?   

        actually, for some of us there is the thought that before 
        the "basic" service of web+email can work at all, one needs
        to have a couple of other infrastructure pieces in play, 
        namely DNS and NTP... Oh, and the routing to knit these
        services together.

--bill