Re: [v6ops] About Req for Comments - "Transition to IPv6"

Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com> Sun, 15 March 2020 23:32 UTC

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From: Matthew Petach <mpetach@netflight.com>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2020 16:32:43 -0700
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Subject: Re: [v6ops] About Req for Comments - "Transition to IPv6"
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On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 11:54 AM Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:

> > On Mar 5, 2020, at 8:51 AM, Alexandre Petrescu <
> alexandre.petrescu@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Is facebook a network?  I thought of it like a server farm.
>
> How does one run a distributed server farm throughout the world without
> connecting it with a network? Am I missing something?
>

I believe for a very long time, that would have accurately described Akamai.

Until their announcement, long after they had established themselves in the
marketplace, that they were going to deploy a network:
https://pc.nanog.org/static/published/meetings/NANOG71/1532/20171003_Kaufmann_Lightning_Talk_Akamai_v1.pdf

Matt