[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 16/03/2012, at 1:53 PM, Paul Brooks wrote:

> On 16/03/2012 1:59 PM, Mark Newton wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 01:55:20PM +1100, Paul Brooks wrote:
>> 
>>> Which means the HE figures are conservative, and there are likely to
>>> be a whole pile more people using mechanisms like 6to4 above and
>>> beyond the real tunnel figures.
>> 
>> Yeah, but a counterpoint is that 6to4 often doesn't work.
>> 
>> Check Geoff's presso at APNIC31 for the lowdown.
> 
> Yeah, but a counterpoint is that 6to4 works better than nothing at all, which is what
> most users have while their providers have native IPv6 disabled - plus as native IPv6
> is progressively enabled the use of 6to4 progressively reduces to nothing
> automatically. I'll take 'often doesn't work - but seems to work good enough for me'
> in the interim over 'guaranteed fail' every day.

6to4 has been an unmitigated disaster and poor implementations have been the single major reason why content is worried about turning v6 on for all.

So, I'd argue that if it hadn't existed then we'd have a lot more IPv6 content.

MMC

> 
> Paul.
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