Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

[Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>]

On Oct 21, 2010, at 10:58 AM, Justin M. Streiner wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:
>
> > How would you respond if that were announced? Carriers have been doing technology transitions for years. Cidr to 
> > classless. Amps to CDMA or gsm... This is not new.
>
> My next question would be "How many times will that get extended/pushed back because somebody screams loudly 
> enough?".  It will probably sunset around the time that v6 starts to run out of gas and people start thinking about 
> IPv8 (assuming IPv7 would be treated like odd-numbered Linux kernel releases like 2.3.x, 2.5.x, etc - never to see 
> the light of day) :)
>
> jms

I'll point out that the FCC sort of tried that with the NTSC->ATSC move.

Finally the broadcasters said "Screw that... You can tell us when we have to turn on ATSC, but, you
can't actually prevent us from turning off NTSC. Click!"

Owen