Multi-6 [WAS: OT - Vint Cerf joins Google]

Tue Sep 13 14:03:27 UTC 2005

Marshall Eubanks wrote:

>On Mon, 12 Sep 2005 17:41:51 -0400
> John Payne <john at sackheads.org> wrote:
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>>On Sep 12, 2005, at 6:58 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
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>>>>I'll be blunt.  As long as that question is up in the air, none of 
>>>>the major content providers are going to do anything serious in the 
>>>>IPv6 arena.
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>>>Well, I have no evidence of them doing anything with IPv6 anyway, so I 
>>>don't know if this makes a difference.
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>>I have a very strong feeling that part of the lack of content providers 
>>on IPv6 is due to the lack of multihoming.
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>No, I would say it is due to the lack of an audience that can _only_  be reached
>(or even _best_ be reached) using IPv6.
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>Once the audience is there, the content providers will follow.
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Same issue really.  Audience isn't going to mature until those issues 
are sorted.