Microsoft's participation in World IPv6 day

Owen DeLong owen at delong.com
Wed Jun 8 13:04:26 UTC 2011


On Jun 8, 2011, at 5:47 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 12:09 AM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Jun 7, 2011, at 9:59 PM, Martin Millnert wrote:
>> 
>>> Owen,
>>> 
>>> On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 11:47 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
>>>> LSN is required when access providers come across the following two
>>>> combined constraints:
>>>> 
>>>>        1.      No more IPv4 addresses to give to customers.
>>>>        2.      No ability to deploy those customers on IPv6.
>>> 
>>> 2 has little bearing on need of LSN to access v4.  Insufficient amount
>>> of IPv4 addresses => LSN required.
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Martin
>> 
>> No, if you have the option of deploying the customers on IPv6, you don't
>> need LSN.
>> 
>> The problem is that until the vast majority of content is dual-stack, you can't
>> deploy customers on IPv6 without IPv4.
>> 
>> 
> 
> cough cough NAT64/DNS64 ...

Doesn't solve the problem unless your users are all on cell-phone browsers
that don't do a lot of the things most users do with real internet connections.

Owen





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