Subj : SixXs stops
To   : Richard Menedetter
From : Michiel van der Vlist
Date : Fri Apr 08 2016 01:22:04

Hello Richard,

On Thursday April 07 2016 20:30, you wrote to me:

 MV>> As my fellow countryman, ex fidonet sysop and IPv6 Guru Iljitsch
 MV>> van Beijnum remarked in his essays: the transition will be
 MV>> ugly... :-(

 RM> And late ;)
 RM> Wrote mythesis about mobile IPv6 in 2004 ...

That early? I think my interest in IPv6 war aroused in 2006 or 2007. But it tool a while before I started experimenting myself.

 MV>> So let me ask you and think about this carefully: how much would
 MV>> it really hurt you to go DS-Lite? How much do you really need a
 MV>> public IPv4 address? If push comes to shove, how much would you
 MV>> be willing to pay for it?

 RM> No IPv6 in the office, no IPv6 with many people, and most Fido nodes.

 RM> I discussed that very point with the network architect of a big ISP,
 RM> who was looking into PCP. I told him that offering IPv4 for 1
 RM> EUR/month makes much more sense ... I would be willing to pay that to
 RM> get dual stack. PCP is a very braindead "solution" for DS-Lite port
 RM> forwarding ...

EUR 1 a month... Yes, I'd be prepared to pay that. For the next five years. At which point I expect to no longer need IPv4.


Cheers, Michiel

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