Creating demand for IPv6

Wed Oct 3 15:02:04 UTC 2007

On 3-Oct-2007, at 1038, <michael.dillon at bt.com> wrote:

>> However, if there was a reasonable translation mechanism
>> available which allowed IPv6-only end systems to access
>> IPv4-only content, I think the picture would look quite
>> different.
>
> Doesn't deploying a 6to4 relay in the content provider network, along
> with IPv6 access to the content provider network, exactly meet this
> requirement?

Oh, now that I actually *read* your text, you're talking about use of  
6to4 in content providers, not end systems. Sorry for not noticing  
that when I replied just now :-)

6to4 (for content- or access-focussed networks) is surely a solution  
to the problem of "I have no good way to acquire IPv6 transit"; it's  
not a solution to the problem of deploying dual-stack across content- 
serving infrastructure, or the problem of there being near zero  
demand for IPv6 content, given that the number of existing IPv6-only  
clients is effectively zero.

Joe