Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* 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.