<div dir="ltr">Hello Mark,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 3:39 PM, Mark Tinka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark.tinka@seacom.mu" target="_blank">mark.tinka@seacom.mu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="">On Monday, June 16, 2014 03:03:36 PM Seun Ojedeji wrote:<br>
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> But we are already assuming there is such v6 specific<br>
> service as that is what is used as a motivation to move.<br>
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</div>I'm not sure of any IPv6-only services that are not used
expressly to encourage IPv6 take-up, but it is feasible to
assume that as more and more of the remaining IPv4 space is
allocated from RIR's to their members, new online resources
are going to be on IPv6 only.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I am sure anyone would agree with this, the reality however is that the margin for now is quite wide and ISPs who are meant to reduce the distance to getting to such promise land (where v6 networks is > v4) are not moving.<br>
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> A content provider does not need to worry about moving<br>
> to v6 because a content provider is just a glorified<br>
> enduser.<br>
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</div>Think again.<br>
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If you take Facebook, for example, it is a well-known fact
that they have moved nearly 98% of their internal (east-to-
west server-to-server communications) to IPv6.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>And that is my point; end users are ready to receive v4 or v6 (just like facebook servers nodes are ready) and so they don't have anything to worry about. Those who need to worry (and who are actually not) are the "network service providers". What we find now is that end-users are the ones trying to move the ISP which should actually be the other way round. On a lighter note, i also don't see facebook going native v6 soon because no content provider wants to take the frog jump especially when he knows that the landing ground is not as soft with v6 users ;)<br>
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> By folks I meant the ISPs. We are saying customers will<br>
> move the ISPs however at the same time, we both know<br>
> that customers don't really care about the numbers but<br>
> about the service. ;)<br>
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</div>And that is why customers will switch to ISP's who have an
IPv6 solution, not because of IPv6, but because they can get
connectivity to much (or all) of the Internet.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think we are in sync ;)<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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> Maybe v6 does not need the much hype afterall.<br>
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</div>Yes and no, actually.<br>
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It matters in the operator community to maintain growth of<br>
the Internet. The Internet is still a mesh of autonomous<br>
systems, after all.<br>
<br></blockquote><div>Mmm....i think it does, so can you at Seacom decide as a matter of policy not to peer with provider that does not also provide v6?<br> <br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
It does not matter much to simple customers (who are the
majority) because all their want is Twitter. And make no
mistake, they will find someone who can give it to them, one
way or the other.<br></blockquote><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">+1 to make it worse, they will even find someone to give v6 content access to them while they still run behind their NATed v4<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Cheers! <br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
Mark.<br>
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