Re: IPv4 v IPv6
On Sat, Jun 22, 2019 at 07:34:52PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> That is why the stance that, "I have IPv4 so I don't need to do
> anything" is not completely correct: it's not urgent for much of the
> world at present, but we will get into a situation where either one
> or both sides of a given IP conversation are behind multiple layers
> of NAT that they don't control, and that's bad.
I recently came across a couple of articles that indicate that due
to the issues I mentioned in this email, IPv6 is already faster than
IPv4:
https://www.retevia.net/fast/
…and that this has some interesting effects on the economics for
carriers (ISPs) and content providers (e.g. web hosts and large
retailers) of v6 vs v4:
https://www.retevia.net/prisoner/
Cheers,
Andy
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