At 04:01 PM 2/13/2003 +1300, Andy Linton wrote:
I spotted these on the ISOC site recently:
Waiting for IP version 6 by Geoff Huston (http://ispcolumn.isoc.org/2003-01/Waiting.html)
and Response by IPv6 Forum to "Waiting for IP version 6" by Latif Ladid and Jim Bound (http://www.isoc.org/pubs/isp/ipv6response.shtml_
thanks - yes I must admit to more than a little frustration over the mythology that surrounds V6, and the pressing reasons why we should all migrate to it! After unloading into the column I appear to have irked the V6 folk more than a little, who then felt that they should respond. I'm still of the personal view that the only real benefit of V6 is the larger address space, and all the other dragons we fight from day to day (routing scaling, security, traffic engineering, dns, content routing, overlays, and the QoS thing are just the same in V6 as V4). So its not a feature-driven decision as to what to do - its more attempting to figure out when and how the high volume low level device world will more (and while there may be billions of V6 devices, each one will be worth not all that much evel using units of micro-cents, and will spend even less per device on its comms needs - so its not exactly a new El Dorado out there in v6-land!) But read and judge for yourself! regards, Geoff