From: "Tom Beecher" <beecher@beecher.cc>
To: "Brian Knight" <ml@knight-networks.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2024 5:31:42 PM
Subject: Re: The Reg does 240/4
$/IPv4 address peaked in 2021, and has been declining since.
On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 16:05 Brian Knight via NANOG <
nanog@nanog.org> wrote:
On 2024-02-15 13:10, Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM) wrote:
> I've said it before, and I'll say it again:
>
> The only thing stopping global IPv6 deployment is
> Netflix continuing to offer services over IPv4.
>
> If Netflix dropped IPv4, you would see IPv6 available *everywhere*
> within a month.
As others have noted, and to paraphrase a long-ago quote from this
mailing list, I'm sure all of Netflix's competitors hope Netflix does
that.
I remain hopeful that the climbing price of unique, available IPv4
addresses eventually forces migration to v6. From my armchair, only
through economics will this situation will be resolved.
> --lyndon
-Brian