> On Aug 13, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Dan Wing wrote:
> > We can't just 'encourage' p2p users to move to v6 until there is
> > content on v6 -- this is the very same problem for v6-only clients
> > wanting to access v6 content (there isn't any -- www.google.com,
> > www.cnn.com, www.amazon.com, are not on v6.  "ipv6.google.com" !=
> > "www.google.com").
> 
> Actually, that's my point.   p2p is *not* cnn.com.   p2p can 
> discover  
> ipv6 peers automatically.   So okay, you can't get to 
> google.com with  
> v6.   But you can make your p2p stuff work better.   So there's some  
> value that ipv6 could add sooner rather than later.

Gotcha:  So you're saying "if you're behind a CGN (doing v4v4 NAT or
v6v4 NAT), you get 100 ports.  But if you are doing native v6, you
get 64K ports.  Your massive port-consuming p2p application will
work better with 64K ports".

Am I characterising that correctly?  

-d

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