[AusNOG] Au IPv6 doubling?

[Nick Stallman]

Although if anyone can convince someone like a bank to get in to the 
21st century it would be Apple.

Just look at the fuss generated when ANZ started supporting Apple Pay 
and not the other 3 big banks.

On 06/05/16 19:23, Mattia Rossi wrote:
>
>
> Am 06.05.2016 um 10:57 schrieb Mark Delany:
>>> Oh anyway.. this is about IPv6 isn't it? ??
>> ...
>>> The Apple announcement should hopefully speed things up.
>> I'm not sure why people think this.
>>
>> As far as I understand it, the announcement is merely stating that
>> apps must work in an environment where there is only a v6 interface
>> available on the device. This is presumably to support operators that
>> can't get - or don't want to buy - v4 addresses. (Or operators that
>> don't want to buy ugly and costly CGNATs).
>>
>> This will have no effect on dual-stacked environments and no effect on
>> the amount of v6 traffic generated. It's merely making sure that there
>> are no legacy v4 dependencies in app code, such as size and format of
>> network addresses. Given that most of the networking is abstracted
>> away from apps on iOS, most apps will not have to make any changes at
>> all to accomodate this requirement.
>>
>> As far as speeding things up, the Apple stacks have long supported and
>> favoured v6 so any increase in traffic s still completely dependent on
>> whether operators issue v6 addresses and whether end-points advertise
>> them.
>>
> I can second that. Apple requires the App to be IPv6 ready, not the 
> service behind the App.
> Otherwise you could just say goodbye to all E-Banking Apps, all Public 
> Transport Apps, all Weather Apps etc.
> Those services won't be IPv6 ready on the server side for another 5 
> years or so (with Banks probably even longer)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Mat
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