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

[Mike Tindle]

> On Feb 12, 2015, at 2:05 PM, Lorenzo Colitti <lorenzo at google.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2015 at 5:33 AM, <Olaf.Bonness at telekom.de <mailto: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 :-)


Comcast (and others) could exempt v6 traffic from any user data caps / overages.   That might get both sides of the equation motivated.


*----------- H U R R I C A N E - E L E C T R I C ---------->>
| Mike Tindle | Senior Network Engineer | mtindle at he.net
| ASN 6939 | http://www.he.net | 510-580-4126
*--------------------------------------------------->>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.cluenet.de/pipermail/ipv6-ops/attachments/20150212/edbe9d56/attachment.htm>