> True, there are no killer apps today. It's quite the other way around. The only reason we don't have tons of apps that require IPv6 is because of the general non-availability of IPv6. Here's what I mean:
I recently went through a lot of effort exploring video conferencing and other video solutions. The benefit of IPv6 in this arena was painfully obvious ... since I only have IPv4 all over the place. Historically, we've all been able to survive with IPv4 for only one reason: NAT. But this is only sufficient if you don't have to satisfy much demand for inbound traffic or peer-to-peer communications for dynamic clients inside the LAN. This has been a big limiting factor for deployment of video conference stations and such ... Nowadays, most peoples' laptops have webcams and microphones built-in. Generally speaking (I know there are exceptions via STUN etc) the only way to get traffic from client A to client B on different networks over IPv4 is for both clients to make outbound connections to some 3rd party relay... which requires network overhead, software and hardware, at a central location ... Not peer-to-peer. Now if only there were some way for these two clients to route traffic directly to each other... ;-) IPv6 would be a huge improvement for this purpose. > Will there be an app that directly draws people to IPv6? No. It is a > chicken and egg problem. Agreed on chicken-and-egg. But the availability of IPv6 breaks the catch-22, and people will see that as "Gee, skype video doesn't suck as long as my ISP supports IPv6" or something like that ... so it becomes a draw to IPv6. _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [email protected] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
