Yahoo and IPv6

Mon May 9 19:40:50 UTC 2011

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Doug Barton [mailto:dougb at dougbarton.us]
> Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 12:11 PM
> To: Jared Mauch
> Cc: nanog at nanog.org; Arie Vayner
> Subject: Re: Yahoo and IPv6
> 
> On 05/09/2011 10:27, Jared Mauch wrote:
> > I do feel the bar that Yahoo is setting is too high.  There are a lot
> of network elements that are broken, either DNS servers, home
> 'gateway/nat' devices, or other elements in the delegation chain.
> 
> Publicly held corporations are responsible to their shareholders to get
> eyeballs on their content. *That* is their job, not promoting cool new
> network tech. When you have millions of users hitting your site every
> day losing 1/2000 is a large chunk of revenue. The fact that the big
> players are doing world IPv6 day at all should be celebrated, promoted,
> and we should all be ready to take to heart the lessons learned from
> it.
> 
> The content providers are not to be blamed for the giant mess that IPv6
> deployment has become. If 6to4 and Teredo had never happened, in all
> likelihood we wouldn't be in this situation today.

Which situation ??? The one where the content can demonstrate how broken the
networks really are? Or the one where the content sites are exposed for
their lack of prior planning? 

The entire point of those technologies you are complaining about was to
break the stalemate between content and network, because both sides will
always wait and blame the other. The fact that the content side chose to
wait until the last possible minute to start is where the approach falls
down. Expecting magic to cover for lack of proactive effort 5-10 years ago
is asking a bit much, even for the content mafia. 

In any case, the content side can mitigate all of the latency related issues
they complain about in 6to4 by putting in a local 6to4 router and publishing
the corresponding 2002:: prefix based address in DNS for their content. They
choose to hold their breath and turn blue, blaming the network for the lack
of 5-9's access to the eyeballs when they hold at least part of a solution
in their own hands.

We are about the witness the most expensive, complex, blame-fest of a
transition that one could have imagined 10 years ago. This is simply due to
the lack of up-front effort that both sides have demonstrated in getting to
this point. Now that time has expired, all that is left to do is sit back
and watch the fireworks.

Tony

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