Creating demand for IPv6

Wed Oct 3 17:43:47 UTC 2007

On 3-Oct-2007, at 1143, Elmar K. Bins wrote:

> jabley at ca.afilias.info (Joe Abley) wrote:
>
>> 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 solves another problem as well, like "I cannot go v6 to
> my servers because my load balancing and packet filtering
> black boxes don't do it yet".

I'm not sure how it solves that problem. 6to4 is not a translation  
mechanism -- it's a tunnelling mechanism. 6to4 does not provide any  
way for an IPv4-only host to talk to an IPv6-only host.

In order to make use of 6to4, surely servers and load balancers still  
need to support IPv6 -- they just get loaded with addresses covered  
by a 6to4 prefix rather than a prefix assigned by an RIR or an IPv6  
transit provider.

Joe