MV>> As my fellow countryman, ex fidonet sysop and IPv6 Guru Iljitsch MV>> van Beijnum remarked in his essays: the transition will be MV>> ugly... :-(
RM> And late ;) RM> Wrote mythesis about mobile IPv6 in 2004 ...
That early? I think my interest in IPv6 war aroused in 2006 or 2007. But it tool a while before I started experimenting myself.
MV>> So let me ask you and think about this carefully: how much would MV>> it really hurt you to go DS-Lite? How much do you really need a MV>> public IPv4 address? If push comes to shove, how much would you MV>> be willing to pay for it?
RM> No IPv6 in the office, no IPv6 with many people, and most Fido nodes.
RM> I discussed that very point with the network architect of a big ISP, RM> who was looking into PCP. I told him that offering IPv4 for 1 RM> EUR/month makes much more sense ... I would be willing to pay that to RM> get dual stack. PCP is a very braindead "solution" for DS-Lite port RM> forwarding ...
EUR 1 a month... Yes, I'd be prepared to pay that. For the next five years. At which point I expect to no longer need IPv4.
