Tony, Keith, Keith Moore wrote: > > > The real requirement is in the other order; when > > a desireable app becomes available that works over IPv6 but fails over > > NAT. This will cause people to upgrade their OS to Solaris 8, or XP, > > etc. This is more likely to be a peer-to-peer game than any business > > app. > > I don't see a "killer IPv6-based business app" as likely, but IPv6 > does seem like a good way to solve some of the problems that NATs > cause for communications between private v4 networks. It won't be > a single app that causes businesses to shift, it will be the ability > to run whatever protocols the businesses want to use to talk to each other.
Hold on just a minute. Business applications are moving away from limited client/server models towards synchronous or asynchronous exchanges between systems that are sometimes clients and sometimes servers. I don't want to rant at length here, but peer-to-peer business apps are absolutely what we need for IPv6. Brian
