Are IPv6-only Internet services viable today?

Cam Byrne cb.list6 at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 15:52:02 UTC 2010


----- Original message -----
> On Sat, 16 Jan 2010, Cam Byrne wrote:
>
> > interested you can read the ietf draft.  Assuming you have a ds-lite
> > cpe, you can park dual-stack hosts behind it.  But, it does not "just
>
> If your hosts are dual-stacked, why would you need a ds-lite cpe in the
> first place?

A dual-stack capable host like windows 7 does not ensure any ipv6 network access beyond the local LAN, especially given todays ipv4-only service dominance.  There are various ways to translate or tunnel to solve this problem, connecting v6 and v4 islands, including nat64 and ds-lite 


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> Antonio Querubin
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