Philosophical question for IPv6 Day

Erik Kline ek at google.com
Thu Jun 9 02:24:25 CEST 2011


On 8 June 2011 17:21, Bill Owens <owens at nysernet.org> wrote:
> Which is better, at this stage of IPv6 deployment and transition:
>
>  - a fully dual-stacked website, functional for a v6-only client without resorting to v4, and located at a separate URL (www.ipv6, etc.)
>
> or
>
>  - a v6-accessible skeleton at the main URL (www) that isn't functional by itself, and forces the client to use v4 to fetch a substantial amount of the content.
>
> Bill.
>
> (I vote for the first choice, since I don't think the second one really proves anything - it doesn't drive backbone traffic, doesn't reveal path problems, etc.)
>

The second one.  It might seem cheesey, but it can be steadily
refactored and improved for more IPv6 piece by piece and gains real
IPv6 users.  Nobody uses alternate domainnames.


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