The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

Fri Jun 29 13:37:23 UTC 2007

Until there's a practical solution for multihoming, this whole discussion is pretty pointless.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Andy Davidson <andy at nosignal.org>

Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:27:33 
To:Donald Stahl <don at calis.blacksun.org>
Cc:nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

On 29 Jun 2007, at 14:24, Donald Stahl wrote:

>> That's the thing .. google's crawlers and search app runs at layer  
>> 7, v6 is an addressing system that runs at layer 3.  If we'd (the  
>> community) got everything right with v6, it wouldn't matter to  
>> Google's applications whether the content came from a site hosted  
>> on a v4 address, or a v6 address, or even both.
> If Google does not have v6 connectivity then how are they going to  
> crawl those v6 sites?

I think we're debating from very similar positions...

v6 isn't the ideal scenario of '96 extra bits for free', because if  
life was so simple, we wouldn't need to ask this question.

Andy