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The end of IPv4 is near, but that doesn't mean the end of the Internet is here. ?The next chapter gets a new page turned. ?Maybe we will determine

Hi Jorge, What if the move to IPv6 was not too hard? What if the move to IPv6 did have some positive results? What if the move to IPv6 meant the reliance on IPv4 was significantly diminished? Would that be OK with you? Thanks, Mick -----Original Message----- From: nanog-request@nanog.org [mailto:nanog-request@nanog.org] Sent: Friday, 22 October 2010 11:00 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: NANOG Digest, Vol 33, Issue 122 Send NANOG mailing list submissions to nanog@nanog.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to nanog-request@nanog.org You can reach the person managing the list at nanog-owner@nanog.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of NANOG digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: cost of IPv4 (Jorge Amodio) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:39:36 -0500 From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com> Subject: Re: cost of IPv4 To: nanog@nanog.org Message-ID: <AANLkTim=GJaVbjucAXJcZ8LKusbHqBqEzE3-7Kkp5gom@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 that IPv6 needs to go the way of IPX/Decnet/AppleTalk and some new system (non-IP even) will take over the world. IMHO, there is no such thing like "the end of IPv4 is near", what is near is the exhaustion of the IPv4 address space for new allocations. Unfortunately, as Bill mentioned, IPv6 does not offer much more than an expanded address space, quite a different situation with the proprietary protocols you mentioned, then there is no much benefit/motivation for many to switch in a hurry. No doubt that we need to move forward and keep pushing to get IPv6 deployed, but it will coexist for many many years with IPv4 which will probably never go 100% away. My .02 Jorge ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ NANOG mailing list NANOG@nanog.org https://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog End of NANOG Digest, Vol 33, Issue 122 **************************************