On 5/30/07, Michal Krsek <michal@krsek.cz> wrote:
Few weeks ago I had interesting discussion with *unnamed* Google VIP. His answer has been: "Google engineers doesn't see need to spend money on building IPv6 infrastructure. You, as user, can motivate them by sending request supporting this idea."
I see three main ways Google might use IPv6 infrastructure -- Using IPv6 for scanning IPv6-distributed web pages, at least for IPv6only pages -- Accepting search requests over IPv6 http for users who want that -- Glue, internal applications, etc. The first application is probably the most important - if there's (ostensibly, at least) content on the web that's only available via IPv6, they may still want it (though IPv4-only search engine users may not be able to get it except via Google's cache.) Internal applications might benefit from IPv6, but there's probably enough room in IPv4 10.0.0.0/8 for Google, at least for a while. IPv6 web users will need IPv6-to-IPv4 gateways for a while... ---- Thanks; Bill Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so far. And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it.