Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-04 Thread Nathan Ward
On 4/10/2007, at 11:07 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I haven't dug too deep into NAT-PT, but an obvious question comes to mind: Why would an ISP deliver an IPv6-only connection plus NAT-PT (and all the likely problems) with a surcharge for IPv4 instead of delivering RFC191

Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet

2007-10-04 Thread Tim Franklin
On Thu, October 4, 2007 6:49 am, Mike Leber wrote: > As the data at http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi shows for the > IPv6 and IPv4 nameserver tests, some of the time IPv6 connectivity is > *faster* than IPv4 connectivity (66 out of 264 test cases), because of > network topology differen

Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet

2007-10-03 Thread Mike Leber
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Daniel Senie wrote: > BTW, thanks for bringing this thread back to the question of creating > demand for IPv6. There's plenty of anti-NAT activity on other > threads. Some constructive discussion over ways to create incentives > to deploy IPv6 is worthwhile. The most common

Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet

2007-10-03 Thread Daniel Senie
At 08:04 PM 10/3/2007, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake "Daniel Senie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A number of people have bemoaned the lack of any IPv6-only killer-content that would drive a demand for IPv6. I've thought about this, and about the government's push to make IPv6 a reality. What occur

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread Nathan Ward
On 4/10/2007, at 12:24 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did not change anything on that page, either. For the record, that's because I have a screaming two-year-old trying to use me as a climbing wall right now. My 10 month-old is soundly sleeping right now so I incorpora

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread William Herrin
On 10/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > As mentioned, 6to4 doesn't do what you seem to think it does. > > Its not a solution to the problem of IPv6 endpoints trying to > > talk to IPv4 endpoints. > > I see that you did not change anything on that page. Specifically what > is w

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread William Herrin
On 10/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you care to wager, I'll take some of that action. Without > > a relatively transparent mechanism for IPv6-only hosts to > > access IPv4-only sites this isn't going to happen. We don't > > have such a mechanism built and won't have it

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread Elmar K. Bins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Abley) wrote: > 6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is surely a solution > to the problem of "I have no good way to acquire IPv6 transit"; It solves another problem as well, like "I cannot go v6 to my servers because my load balancing and packet filtering bla

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread Joe Greco
> > It isn't that simple. The fact that NAT exists and is seen as useful > > by many people (whether or not they are even aware of it) means > > services and applications need to be aware of it. > > This is a hidden cost of NAT. Why hack many applications to work around > a network layer pro

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread William Herrin
On 10/3/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, if there was a reasonable translation mechanism > > available which allowed IPv6-only end systems to access > > IPv4-only content, I think the picture would look quite > > different. > > Doesn't deploying a 6to4 relay in the con

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-03 Thread William Herrin
On 10/3/07, Mark Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The value of network perimeterisation as a security measure, of which > NAT is a method, is being questioned significantly by network security > people. Mark, The discussion at hand is whether the absence of NAT creates a drag on IPv6 deploymen

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-02 Thread William Herrin
On 10/2/07, Randy Bush <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > During early phase of free pool exhaustion, when you can't deliver > > more IPv4 addresses to your customers you lose the customer to a > > hosting provider who still has addresses left. So sorry. Those will be > > some nasty years. Unless you'

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-02 Thread William Herrin
On 10/2/07, Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007, William Herrin wrote: > > At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT, > > eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a negative > > demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up. > > At th

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-02 Thread William Herrin
On 10/2/07, John Curran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT, > >eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a negative > >demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up. > > #1 has been partially mitigated by NAT, and perhap

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-02 Thread William Herrin
On 10/2/07, Brian Raaen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, a > better way to push IPv6 is make users want it and feel like they are missing > out if they don't have it. I campaign with some kind of slogan like 'got > IPv6' or "I've got ultra high tech IPv6 for my internet and you don't" with