On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:00 +1200, Lin Nah wrote:
Following up to various points a. Neil Gardner's dialogue I think the conversation will be
Ring Ring...
ISP helpdesker- "Hello, helpdesk speaking" User - "Hi, I really really need IPv6, can I get it please?" ISP helpdesker- "What is IPv6?" User - Check out this webpage ...
:)
b. Content
On the matter of content, what if some other organisations (i.e., Apple or Microsoft) were to make just a portion of their music catalogues freely available over IPv6? (With rate limiting and so on in place of course.) Ignoring for a moment the licensing issues and the recording companies not liking it, this could be huge incentive. MacOS X and Vista have IPv6 support built in today, complete with tunnelling technologies, it wouldn't be that hard to do. And we we've already seen that Apple has the muscles to take care of the recording companies...
There's a few press articles about how the Beijing 2008 Olympics will be streamed using IPv6. I can't find anything at the moment that says it is going to be exclusively used, apart from one mention in Wikipedia "all Beijing Olympics 2008 communications will be IPv6" based" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6
It wouldn't surprise me if they used IPv6 only internally, made it available externally and have IPv4 proxies in place for the rest of the Internet. It would be insanity to not have IPv4 support.
So perhaps 1. the streams will be made available to public 2. Spectators online will try to use it to watch sports events that aren't served by their local TV stations.
Vista will use Teredo to automatically build a tunnel if there is no native IPv6 connection and an installed software package asks for IPv6 connectivity. So they could do "download this movie viewer to watch the Olympics" and the movie viewer requests IPv6. <shrug>
3. This may create a demand for IPv6?
If they take the side step approach above, then yeah, but the punters won't know they're using it.
While it is perhaps small beginnings and perhaps not as popular as streaming the sort of content mentioned in the experiment, it may be a start to generating demand?
Different target demographics. :) There are also a couple of completely open Usenet servers for IPv6 users to access, different demographics again. Unfortunately it appears that Usenet hasn't been enough incentive to get on IPv6! Cheers! -- Andrew Ruthven Wellington, New Zealand At home: andrew(a)etc.gen.nz | This space intentionally | left blank.