Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

[Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox () packetrade com>]

Hmm I find this topic quite interesting.

First is the belief that the Internet will suddenly break on the day when the last IP block is allocated by an RIR - 
the fact that most of the v4 space is currently not being announced may mean we have many years before there are real 
widespread shortages

Second is the belief that this will prompt a migration to IPv6, as though moving to an entirely different and largely 
unsupported protocol stack is the logical thing to happen. Surely it is easier and far cheaper by use of existing 
technology for example for organisations to make efficient use of their public IPs and deploy NATs?

As technology people we are looking at v6 as the clean bright future of IP, but the real world is driven by economics 
and I dont see v6 as being economically viable in the near future....

I'm also yet to hear a convincing explanation of how v6 and v4 are expected to interoperate in a v4 internet that 
contains v6 islands...

Steve

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 10:33:25AM -0400, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
> I'm working on it ... But I think it will be really difficult to capture in
> a couple of pages what the document try to explain !
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> Regards,
> Jordi
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> > De: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch () muada com>
> > Responder a: <owner-nanog () merit edu>
> > Fecha: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:25:22 +0200
> > Para: <jordi.palet () consulintel es>
> > CC: <nanog () nanog org>
> > Asunto: Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
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> > On 27-jun-2007, at 21:08, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
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> > > I've published a document trying to analyze the IPv4 exhaustion
> > > problem and
> > > what is ahead of us, considering among others, changes in policies.
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> > > http://www.ipv6tf.org/index.php?page=news/newsroom&id=3004
> >
> > Ugh, a link to a page with a link...
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> > Do you have an executive summary for us?
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