From: Mike Leber (no email)
Date: Thu Oct 04 2007 - 01:49:27 EDT
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Daniel Senie wrote:
> BTW, thanks for bringing this thread back to the question of creating
> demand for IPv6. There's plenty of anti-NAT activity on other
> threads. Some constructive discussion over ways to create incentives
> to deploy IPv6 is worthwhile. The most common argument for deployment
> of IPv6 is fear, as in "the sky is falling." Yeah, we all heard that,
> and have for a decade. Got it. Now, is there some POSITIVE reason to
> push IPv6? Fear is not a positive force.
Ok, I'll bite and throw out a wacky idea I've been mulling over.
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 due to different peering and transit
relationships between IPv4 and IPv6.
So you could write a download accelerator for your browser that checked
IPv6 vs IPv4 connectivity and used whichever was faster.
With only 3 percent of neworks running IPv6 this idea is a little early,
still it would be a hilarious browser plug-in. You could imagine it might
even have a little "IPv6 accelerator" icon that shows up in your status
bar when you've switched on the nitro.
(hehehe, shaving off that extra few ms of latency, yo!)
Mike.
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