On 05/25/2016 08:20 AM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2016-05-25 04:56, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 05/24/2016 09:40 PM, James Knott wrote:
I'm not your enemy/opponent in this, James. I'm just saying there is a good reason why people are hanging on to IPv4 and NAT despite the validity of all you say. calling them fools or idiots or short-sighted doesn't help. It just alienates them.
I think most users don't hang onto IPv4. Me, I will simply use IPv6 when my provider uses it...
Not quite "+1". Its sort of like the situation with FAX of old. When you're the only guy around who has a FAX machine its of no utility. Its only when *ALL* your business corresponds *AND MORE* have fax machines too that it makes sense. Sort of the reverse of "herd immunity". Call it "herd enablement", perhaps. Yes, my router can handle IPv6. Yes my ISP can handle IPv6. But unless and until all the agencies I deal with ALSO handle IPv6, the "why bother?" So long as they deal with IPv4 I end up using IPv4. "Dual stack"? Perhaps. No doubt this is where James comes in to tell of his experience in the area, and I rather hear about that than him telling us all that NAT is evil.
I would like having IPv6, but I don't /need/ it. I don't understand why my provider doesn't use it, but the routers they give their users are IPv6 ready, it seems. Sooner or later they will do it.
Charles Fort once commentated that "Steam engines happen when its Steam Engine time". There seems to be a lot of things like that, they happen when they are ready, not when people try forcing them to happen.
An anecdote. Initially my provider handed out static IPv4 addresses by default to everybody. At some point they /upgraded/ to dynamic addresses. Yes, they sold it as an upgrade! With NAT.
Yes, of course! It was an 'upgrade". For them! Easier to manage business, reduced cost, blah, blah.
They only considered web browsing. They even had the idea of charging per email and per distance.
back when the Big I internet started, say, the 1990 point, the telcos were used to doing data charged (most likely X.25) by a very complicated form involving volume, time of day, distance, how "wide" your pipe was, how much you actually loaded that width (say 16K on a T3). I saw one of these pricing spreadsheets and actually found some inconsistencies in it, a mode where customers could exploit a path and get cheap(er) service. That upset a few people! It upset them more when they found the number of people actually exploiting it. But the Internet ISPs *demanded* a flat rate for their pipes. And they often charged their customers a flat rate as well. Or if not then a simple formula like "connect time". Because if you're paying a flat rate for the pipe to another ISP then doing a SMTP over the wider net, point to point or even store-and-forward via a MX, has nothing to do with the distance to the endpoint. The 19th century telephony model has no bearing to when we're dealing with packet forwarding. Mind you, some of that mentality still hangs around.
They were bewildered when clients told them that they were doing user to user things over Internet, and these clients were angry at them for /upgrading/ to dynamic addressing.
It is kind of funny the sales people parlance.
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