Maybe HE would volunteer to host some Skype servers at their various POPS for this purpose. Skype has to start somewhere. While the v6-only population is still very small, why not dual-stack the clients now with a heavily weighted preference towards v4, track and understand the volume and capabilities of v6, and slowly de-preference v4 over time? Frank -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Kaufman [mailto:matthew@matthew.at] Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 8:57 PM To: Joel Jaeggli Cc: Nanog Operators' Group Subject: Re: Problems with removing NAT from a network On 1/6/2011 6:34 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
On 1/6/11 5:48 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
Doesn't all of this become moot if Skype just develops a dual-stack capable client and servers? Really, only some fraction of the supernodes and the login servers need to be dual stack.
Without revealing too much about the architecture, I can tell you that it would need to be a significant fraction of the supernodes (due to how node-supernode mapping works in these types of P2P systems), the relay nodes (not mentioned) *and* the login servers. Not all of which are deployed and controlled by Skype, of course, as recent press about the most recent outage has reiterated for those who didn't know. Matthew Kaufman