[AusNOG] Prediction: Google et. al. may artificially penalise IPv4 clients

[Mark Delany]

> That said rolling IPv4 blackouts by Google, Netflix, etc., would
> attact attention of the press and ISP's that aren't dual stacked.
> 
> Whether they would be willing to do it would be another matter.

Exactly. The PR risk is huge. Regardless of their altruism, US-based
800lb gorillas imposing their will on under-resourced non-US ISPs is
not a message you want sprayed all over the twitter-verse.

It's a devilishly difficult problem because it's hard to reward v6
adoption without punishing v4 recalcitrants. And who wants a
reputation as a punisher?


Mark.