In order for IPv6 to truly work, everyone needs to be moving towards IPv6. Maintaining dual protocols for the entire internet is problematic, wasteful, and horribly inefficient at best. Bottom line, the internet outgrew IPv4 almost 30 years ago and we’ve been using various hacks like NAT as a sort of IPv4 life-support ever since. Ask any doctor about the prospects for a patient on life support for years at a time and they will probably laugh at you. Patients rarely survive more than a few days on life support, let alone weeks, months, or even years. Yes, we’ve done really well with internet life support. So well that many have been lulled into a false sense of safety believing that these extreme measures can be continued indefinitely and scaled well beyond their breaking points. There is little visibility into the escalating cost and complexity of these measures and even less awareness of the relative ease of deploying IPv6 compared to most of these mechanisms. Owen On Mar 22, 2014, at 2:25 AM, Bryan Socha <bryan@digitalocean.com> wrote:
Fair point. There are some situations that do need more than most, but aren't they the ones that should be on ipv6 already???????
I know a few are shouldn't I be on ipv6 and that's fair too. I'm plqnnning some speaking engagements to cover that. Its not blind and ignoring. On Mar 22, 2014 4:36 AM, "TJ" <trejrco@gmail.com> wrote:
Millions of IPs don't matter in the face of X billions of people, and XX-XXX billions of devices - and this is just the near term estimate. (And don't forget utilization efficiency - Millions of IPs is not millions of customers served.)
Do IPv6. /TJ
On Mar 22, 2014 3:09 AM, "Bryan Socha" <bryan@digitalocean.com> wrote:
As someone growing in the end of ipv4, its all fake. Sure, the rirs
will
run out, but that's boring. Don't believe the fake auction sites. Fair price of IP at the end is $1 for bad Rep $2 for barely used, $3 for no spam and $4 for legacy. Stop the inflation. Millions of IPS exist, there is no shortage and don't lie for rirs with IPS left.