The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

Fri Jun 29 14:28:43 UTC 2007

steve. >multihoming is simple, you get an address block and route it to your upstreams

Hey, that's a very "simplistic" IGP point of view  !!
I'm afraid I disagree  :)

On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Stephen Wilcox wrote:

steve. >
steve. >multihoming is simple, you get an address block and route it to your upstreams.
steve. >
steve. >the policy surrounding that is another debate, possibly for another group
steve. >
steve. >this thread is discussing how v4 to v6 migration can operate on a network level
steve. >
steve. >Steve
steve. >
steve. >On Fri, Jun 29, 2007 at 01:37:23PM +0000, Christian Kuhtz wrote:
steve. >> Until there's a practical solution for multihoming, this whole discussion is pretty pointless.
steve. >> 
steve. >> --
steve. >> Sent from my BlackBerry.      
steve. >> 
steve. >> -----Original Message-----
steve. >> From: Andy Davidson <andy at nosignal.org>
steve. >> 
steve. >> Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:27:33 
steve. >> To:Donald Stahl <don at calis.blacksun.org>
steve. >> Cc:nanog at nanog.org
steve. >> Subject: Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
steve. >> 
steve. >> 
steve. >> 
steve. >> 
steve. >> On 29 Jun 2007, at 14:24, Donald Stahl wrote:
steve. >> 
steve. >> >> That's the thing .. google's crawlers and search app runs at layer  
steve. >> >> 7, v6 is an addressing system that runs at layer 3.  If we'd (the  
steve. >> >> community) got everything right with v6, it wouldn't matter to  
steve. >> >> Google's applications whether the content came from a site hosted  
steve. >> >> on a v4 address, or a v6 address, or even both.
steve. >> > If Google does not have v6 connectivity then how are they going to  
steve. >> > crawl those v6 sites?
steve. >> 
steve. >> I think we're debating from very similar positions...
steve. >> 
steve. >> v6 isn't the ideal scenario of '96 extra bits for free', because if  
steve. >> life was so simple, we wouldn't need to ask this question.
steve. >> 
steve. >> Andy
steve. >> 
steve. >