In message <alpine.bsf.2.00.1106060732190.68...@goat.gigo.com>, Jason Fesler wr ites: > > But anyway, just consider it: a portion of the major websites go > > IPv6-only for 24 hours. What happens is that well, 99% of the populace > > can't reach them anymore, as the known ones are down, they start calling > > and thus overloading the helpdesks of their ISPs. > > Won't happen this year or next. Too much money at stake for the web > sites. Only when IPv4 is single digits or less could this be even > remotely considered. Even the 0.05% hit for a day was controverial at > $dayjob.
IPv4 will never reach those figures. IPv6 isn't preferenced enough for that to happen and IPv6-only sites have methods of reaching IPv4 only sites (DS-Lite, NAT64/DNS64). -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: ma...@isc.org
