Re: Creating demand for IPv6

At 12:42 PM -0400 10/2/07, William Herrin wrote:

As far as I can tell, IPv6 is at least theoretically capable of offering exactly two things that IPv4 does not offer and can't easily be made to offer:

1. More addresses. 2. Provider independent addresses

At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT, eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a negative demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up.

#1 has been partially mitigated by NAT, and perhaps only temporarily. The last chapter of that book is yet to be written. /John