Lazy network operators

Sun Apr 18 14:53:24 UTC 2004

Paul Jakma wrote:

>
>Well, let's be honest, name one good reason why you'd want IPv6
>(given you have 4)? And, to be more on-topic, name one good reason
>why a network operator would want it? Especially given that, apart
>from the traditional bleeding edges (academic networks), no customers
>are asking for it.
>
>  
>
We need one (or more) of the p2p vendors to support it. Then IPv6 
traffic will explode in three months to ~10-15% of all internet traffic. 
Would make most p2p networks more efficient because almost all hosts 
would have publicly routable addresses. If we want to grow the demand 
for IPv6, it makes sense to focus on the application(s) that generate 
most of the bits.

Pete