On 16-Feb-2007, at 17:00, Nathan Ward wrote:
End-to-end IP connectivity is so passe.
But it's arguably what allowed the Internet to grow and flourish. If the network controls the applications that users can deploy, then either the provider will be permanently playing catch-up, the user will be permanently disappointed, or (if the disease is sufficiently widespread) people will stop dreaming up new applications for users to run, and will instead concentrate on packages they can sell to carriers and ISPs. This all starts to sound a bit like the telco network. [Everybody here who wasn't configuring routers ten years ago please go find "Rise of the Stupid Network" by David S. Isenberg and read it twice before replying to that paragraph.] So, here's another question. Who has played with Windows Vista sufficiently to have a good handle on the performance implications of users doing things like peer-to-peer name resolution over 6to4/ Teredo? Does this provide an incentive for ISPs to provide better v6 performance in order to win customers, or is it something that the helpdesks of the world will swiftly direct customers to disable? Joe