[OSM-talk] AAAA openstreetmap still doesn't use ipv6

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Claudius wrote:
> There are not enough IPv4 adresses for Africa and Latin America already 
> which is why they are assigning IPv6 only already. Now with the new east 
> african internet cable this might lead to even more IPv6 users in 
> potential OSM countries, but... all those IPv6 users cannot reach IPv4 
> only servers.

This is an honest question because I really have not researched the 
matter: Are there *real* people in developing countries whom one might 
consider potential mappers who buy Internet access and get IPv6 only 
with no HTTP access to IPv4 only servers? Would not any provider who 
cannot offer IPV4 addresses be forced to set up easy-to-use proxy or 
masquerading systems?

(Can they even reach ebay, amazon, cnn, twitter and the lot then?)

Or is this something rather hypothetical, much like it would 
theoretically be possible to set up an IPv6-only dialup in Germany if 
you really, really wanted?

I'm trying to find out if IPv6 is something that is pragmatically 
required, or if this is rather something ideology-based - I read a lot 
of "should" in Thomas's statements. My opinion is that if we have reason 
to believe that, for the forseeable future, even those IPv6-only 
machines that might exist somewhere will have an effortless way to 
connect to the IPv4 world (and the only thing to be said against this is 
that it is "technically uncool"), then I would not waste a minute trying 
to be cool. But if there are real-world situations where people who can 
use the rest of the internet normally turn away from OSM because we 
don't talk to them, then we should act.

It is probably a moot point anyway because, as someone else pointed out, 
either UCL does it or they don't and we would be the last ones to raise 
a fuss with them over anything.

Bye
Frederik

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