Why IPv6? (Current Business Reasons)

• demand from particular regions

  • Asia, EU
  • technical, geo-political, and business reasons
  • demand is now

• demand for particular services

  • cellular wireless (especially 3GPP[2] standards)
  • Internet gaming (e.g., Sony Playstation 2)
  • use is >= 1.5 years away (but testbeds needed now)

• potential move to IPv6 by Microsoft?

  • IPv6 included in Windows XP, but not enabled by default
  • to be enabled by default in next major release of Windows
  • use is >= 1.5 years away

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