Alternative Re: ipv4/25s and above Re: 202211232221.AYC

Mon Nov 28 09:40:50 UTC 2022

Vasilenko Eduard via NANOG wrote:

> Big OTTs installed caches all over the world.
> Big OTTs support IPv6.

As large network operational cost to support IPv6 is
negligible for OTTs spending a lot more money at the
application layer, they may.

> Hosts prefer IPv6.

No.

As many retail ISPs can not afford operational cost of
IPv6, they are IPv4 only, which makes hosts served by
them IPv4 only.

Possible exceptions are ISPs offering price (not
necessarily value) added network services in
noncompetitive environment. But, end users suffer
from the added price.

					Masataka Ohta