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Geoff Huston
- New technologies from the 70s – Unix and Packet switching (TCP/IP)
- Open technologies – anyone can implement
- TCP/IP not better than competing technologies but it’s openness greatly helped it win
- One thing to “be open” , another to “stay open”
- Useful technologies are rarely static
- Technology evolves, uses change (eg growth of wireless), exploitation models change
- Challenges – net neutrality, next generation networks, mobility and mobil service evolution, Triple/Quad play schemes
- The really important thing is “We are running out of addresses”
- 190 m addresses given out in 2009, 248m in 2010
- 300million new things on the network
- 9 million new addresses just in Australia
- 7 /8s left, rate of 1/month
- plan that IPv6 transition would happen before ipv4 ran out
- Only 0.3% hitting google IPv6
- IPv4 will run out during 2011/2012
- Need to transition to ipv6 in 200 days
- Won’t happen, have to muddle thing with ipv4
- NATs are an externalized problem
- ISP NATs, multi-level, within ISP network
- aperture through through which the Internet can be seen and used. Reduced port space
- transition to ipv6. Dual stack requires everybody to have a ipv4 address
- If you run 6to4 15% of connections don’t connect.
- Transition could take 5-40 years
- Making ipv4 addresses last longer, they will cost
- TCP/IP is the network monoculture
- Will openness be lost in the transition?
- Telcos being asking to make big investment in ipv6. No really in their interests to have an open network.
- Similar for large Internet companies like google and amazon
- Delays help the incumbents, open network infrastructure is at risk
- Need to figure out how to motivate big companies to goto ipv6 and open infrastructure
