[rpd] IPv6 and some cloud providers

[Fernando Frediani]

On 31/05/2020 14:21, Owen DeLong wrote:

> <clio>

> Forcing the use of IPv6 is not what is required, however. Making IPv6 available and explaining the benefits of dual-stack is useful.

> Making IPv6 available and explaining that IPv4 will be via NAT and the disadvantages that entails is useful.

This sounds as beautiful words, but we have been explaining this for the 
last 20 years and what ? Unfortunately people need push, otherwise the 
attitude of a some will keep damaging all others.

Several situations where this was mandated proved to have good results 
and increase on IPv6 ratio without any down points.

Fernando


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> The increasing costs and decreasing functionality of IPv4 will drive IPv6 adoption for content providers. That writing has been on the walls for years. If it wasn’t, then it’s unlikely Google/YouTube, Facebook, Netflix, etc. would have put in the effort.

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> Facebook has been particularly forward looking in that they’ve made their IPv4 functionality an edge-service for the declining subset of their user base that is IPv6 handicapped. All of their infrastructure is IPv6 and they have translator boxes at the edge to provide services to those limited to IPv4 only.

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> I suspect over time we will see more and more of the content providers following Facebook’s model.

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> Owen

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