[lug] Re: IPv6

[David L. Anselmi]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:52:12PM -0600, David L. Anselmi wrote:
> 
>>Nate Duehr wrote:
>>
>>>Move forward.  Someone doesn't come along, that's their problem.
>>
>>That's the way I feel about IPv6.
> 
> Ok.  Except in the case of IPv6, it's likely that the Tier 1s are the ones
> who can't handle the 4x increase in data processing overhead.  When you're
> already running on the highest-end iron out there, and just keeping up,
> how do you switch to a protocol that requires, say, 4x the horsepower?

Are you suggesting that I'm ignorant of the real issues and being 
unrealistic?  Isn't that what I just said to Nate? ;-)

But thanks for the perspective.  It's nice to be reminded that I have 
the luxury to be unworried about tier 1 issues.

Dave