Re: Creating demand for IPv6, and saving the planet

2007-10-04 Thread Tim Franklin
On Thu, October 4, 2007 6:49 am, Mike Leber wrote: As the data at http://bgp.he.net/ipv6-progress-report.cgi shows for the IPv6 and IPv4 nameserver tests, some of the time IPv6 connectivity is *faster* than IPv4 connectivity (66 out of 264 test cases), because of network topology differences

two questions - SWAG answers entertained

2007-10-04 Thread bmanning
one: AS hop count for average e2e packet flow, eg. from origin to destination, how many ASN's will a packet traverse? two: number/location of IX that monitor/forbid transit across exchange fabric? --bill (doing grunt work for a study on Landauer Entropy)

Why do some ISP's have bandwidth quotas?

2007-10-04 Thread Vassili Tchersky
2007/10/4, David E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I imagine the cost of backhauling traffic a few thousand miles in underseas cables would add to the cost of running an ISP in, say, Australia, especially since many sites the end-users will want to see are still hosted in the US. In Europe, the

Re: Creating demand for IPv6

2007-10-04 Thread Nathan Ward
On 4/10/2007, at 11:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't dug too deep into NAT-PT, but an obvious question comes to mind: Why would an ISP deliver an IPv6-only connection plus NAT-PT (and all the likely problems) with a surcharge for IPv4 instead of delivering RFC1918