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Re: [homegate] HOMENET working group proposal

2011-07-01 16:19:20
On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

On 07/01/2011 13:03, Kenneth Voort wrote:
I would also add that future IPv6 capable devices should allow end users to 
reach the IPv6 Internet
from an IPv4-only provider through some means, perhaps tunneling, with no or 
minimal administrator
intervention. I can see many providers remaining IPv4-only long into the 
future.

This is an area that we very clearly do not need to get involved in because 
it will solve itself due to market forces. Right now there is no IPv6-only 
content that anyone cares about. When that changes, users will start 
demanding that their provider give them access to it, or vote with their feet.

Whenever people talk about the Internet as if it were just about "access to 
content", I have to wonder.    The Internet has always been more about 
conversation than content.  

To summarize my main point once again, there is nothing for the IETF to do 
here, the problem will take care of itself.

Quite the contrary.  We still don't have a good transition mechanism that 
HOMENET could specify.   6to4 has problems as we're now painfully aware; 
configured tunnels and Teredo have different problems.  There's still room for 
work in this space if better solutions can be identified.  Though it doesn't 
seem appropriate to ask the HOMENET WG to develop them.

Keith

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