The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

Thu Jun 28 17:27:15 UTC 2007

At 10:16 AM -0700 6/28/07, Randy Bush wrote:
> >     Interoperability is achieved by having public facing
>>     servers reachable via IPv4 and IPv6.
>
>that may be what it looks like from the view of an address allocator.
>
>but if you actually have to deliver data from servers you need a path
>where data from/in both protocols is supported on every link of the
>chain that goes all the way to every bit of back end data in your
>system.  and if one link in that chain is missing, <sound of glib idea
>imploding>.

Randy,

   Organizations need to have IPv6 on their DMZ servers.

   ISP's needs to provide IPv6 to these organizations, either
   directly or via tunnel.

   It's actually rather simple.

/John