Why do we still need IPv4 when we are migrating to IPv6...

Lorenzo Colitti lorenzo at google.com
Thu Feb 12 23:05:24 CET 2015


On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:33 AM, <Olaf.Bonness at telekom.de> wrote:

> I wonder if it would make a difference if big eyeballs ISPs ("among the
> 3 largest in a country") would start talking to content providers, telling
> them "hey, you know, your content is quite popular with our users, but
> since it's v4-only, we need to seriously throttle it to avoid overloading
> our CGN.  v6 goes unlimited, btw."...
>
> just dreaming...
>
> [Obo]: Nice idea :). However content is king and your customer hotline
> will turn red because of people blaming you as ISP.
>

That's not true. ISPs shake down content companies all the time - look at
Comcast vs. Netflix, for example. I'm sure that as a large DT does its
share of that kind of thing too :-)
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