On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 10:10 +1200, Nathan Ward wrote:
On 11/04/2007, at 9:10 AM, Andrew Ruthven wrote:
On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 17:00 +1200, Lin Nah wrote:
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.)
Wait, what? Why would they put their $ in to that project? What do they gain?
Because they want people to start using the new technology in their operating systems? It makes life easier from their support point of views if they can get remote access to peoples machines? Microsoft can see other benefits as well: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsvista/aa905083.aspx
In order to bring this in to the realms of beer and operational issues (in order of preference) I'd like to call attention to: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to- historic-00.txt and ask if any of you have given thought to what happens when you can't get any v4 addresses for your subscribers anymore.
This is of course where the nay-sayers say that the rate of IPv4 exhaustion is a joke. I'm not one of those, and I've already started experimenting with IPv6. (And for the record, I started experimenting *long* before that experiment website was created!) Also, the IPv4 Internet certainly isn't going away anytime soon, and there are protocol level proxies that work okay for going between IPv6 and IPv4.
When thinking about this, keep in mind that until there's a critical mass of IPv6 eyeballs, most content providers are unlikely to spend $ to move.
There are content providers out there that are starting to deploy IPv6, their concern at the moment is the potential for slow performance and bad end-user experience due to all the crappy tunnels stitching the IPv6 Internet together. The people that replied to those concerns all said that they've had very little negative feedback. Cheers! -- Andrew Ruthven Wellington, New Zealand At home: andrew(a)etc.gen.nz | This space intentionally | left blank.