Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

[John Curran <jcurran () mail com>]

At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote:
> >     Interoperability is achieved by having public facing
> >     servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6.
>
> that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator.
>
> but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a path
> where data from/in both protocols is supported on every link of the
> chain that goes all the way to every bit of back end data in your
> system.  and if one link in that chain is missing, <sound of glib idea
> imploding>.

Randy,
 
   Organizations need to have IPv6 on their DMZ servers.

   ISP's needs to provide IPv6 to these organizations, either
   directly or via tunnel.

   It's actually rather simple.

/John