The idea was to observe and measure an (almost) all IPv4 network and its management/infrastructure costs, namely the one we got, not an IPv6 one, before the transition starts to muddy the waters significantly. -b On October 22, 2010 at 18:03 bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com (bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com) wrote:
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:28:24PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
It occurs to me that there is some pressing need to investigate this all-IPv6 internet -- motivated by the cost of (not) maintaining IPv4 forever.
Right now we can observe essentially an all-IPv4 internet (99%, whatever.)
-- -Barry Shein
For this, you need to leave the comfort of NANOG and look at the CERNnet network over the past ten years. They have been running a large, all IPv6 network for some time now.
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Cannes-19148-IPv6-development-China...
www.cs.princeton.edu/~yiwang/papers/iscc05.pdf
http://www.cernet2.edu.cn/en/char.htm
--bill
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