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RE: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-15 00:00:11
Maybe reports of "the DNS is broken when you do go to pure IPv6" are
more valuable than "you can only go to IPv6 if you jump through these
hoops that only advanced Internet users can do".

Is the IETF afraid to eat it's own food?
Or is it willing to do what's necessary (in the interim) to adjust to
the new cuisine?

Our networking team at Microsoft did run an "IPv6 only" trial during the 
development of Windows Vista. Volunteers only. The volunteers would disable the 
IPv4 stacks on their PC, and then attempt to go on with their normal work, both 
for internal applications such as corporate mail, file servers, or intranet 
servers, and for external applications, mostly web based. It worked, but it had 
to rely on a set of transport proxies for those internal applications that were 
not yet IPv6 ready, and of course web proxies for internal access.

-- Christian Huitema




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