On 24 nov 2008, at 3:20, Robin Whittle wrote:
"Updates are ready for your computer"
This only works for that subset of devices for which the operating
system is actively maintained and upgraded, for which the programmers
invest in adding SHIM6, for which automatic updates are possible and
for which the end-user of each device enables such automatic updates.
Right.
If, along with that, we can keep legacy IPv4 applications running,
which should be possible because there are only some 14M /24s in IPv4,
we should be in good shape. No need to keep the latest stuff in the
non-latest OSes or the non-latest stuff in the latest OSes running,
except for that old IPv4 stuff that will be around for a good while.
Multihoming 10%, 50% or probably anything less than 95% of traffic
does not strike me as useful.
Hm, I'd rather redownload 5 out of 10 files when my ISP craps out than
10 out of 10. Partial deployment for multihoming is still useful.
Until that level is reached, there are only costs and risks in
installing the new system. There is no substantial benefit until
95%, 99% or whatever of the other hosts in the world have been
upgraded too.
This would be true for the scalability issue.
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