19 Apr
2010
19 Apr
'10
6:42 a.m.
* William Herrin:
On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
Sure the internet will not die...
But by the time we run out of IPv4 to allocate, the IPv6 network will not have completed to dual stack the current IPv4 network. So what will happen?
Zero-sum game. Deploying a new IPv4 address will require removing one from some other function.
Not true. Many LIRs have traditionally avoided reclaiming unused address space from (ex-)customers because it was cheaper to use fresh addresses.