On May 14, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: > Matthew Kaufman <matt...@matthew.at> writes: > >>> My Desktop is not able to make any IPv4 socket connections anymore. I get >>> "Protocol not supported". So there are IPv6-only users, already bitten by >>> no AAAA. So that's -1 from me. >> >> Sounds to me like you're not on The Internet any more. > > in <http://www.merit.edu/mail.archives/nanog/2001-04/msg00294.html> we see: > > (*2) Q: But what IS the Internet? > A: "It's the largest equivalence class in the reflexive, transitive, > symmetric, closure of the relationship 'can be reached by an IP > packet from'". Seth Breidbart > > by which definition, matthew's observation would be correct. folks who want > to run V6 only and still be "on the internet" will need proxies for a long > while. folks who want to run V6 only *today* and not have any proxies *today* > are sort of on their own -- the industry will not cater to market non-forces.
I think that the real question is, when will people who are running IPv4 only not be on the Internet by this definition ? Regards Marshall > -- > Paul Vixie > KI6YSY > >
