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Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon () ttec com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 19:54:37 -0400
John Levine wrote:
I suspect a 16 /8 right about now would be very welcome for everybody other then the ipv6 adherents.It would, if the software supported it. But it doesn't. Is there any reason to think the world would update its TCP stacks to handle those extra IPv4 addresses any sooner than it'd update its stacks to handle IPv6? Doesn't seem likely. R's, John
Are you really equating an incremental silent update to remove something between one if statement or slightly more and an entire protocol stack that when active fundamentally changes the host networking behavior?
This objection hinges on the assumption that if there is even ONE host on the network that will not accept that address, then the entire effort was a waste.
Because there would then be no difference to the many many IPv4 (and IPv6) updates that were made with no guarantee of universal adoption.
Its not really standards place to make that judgement call. Worse, it is not the standards role to ensure the outcome by making that judgement call.
Joe
Current thread:
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion, (continued)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 16)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 16)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Joe Maimon (Jul 17)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Shane Ronan (Jul 17)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 18)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Lee Howard (Jul 16)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Joe Maimon (Jul 16)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Lee Howard (Jul 16)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Joe Maimon (Jul 17)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion John Levine (Jul 15)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Joe Maimon (Jul 15)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion John R. Levine (Jul 15)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Paul Ferguson (Jul 15)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Valdis . Kletnieks (Jul 17)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Owen DeLong (Jul 15)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Joe Maimon (Jul 15)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Karl Auer (Jul 14)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Randy Bush (Jul 14)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Randy Bush (Jul 14)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Karl Auer (Jul 14)
- Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion Randy Bush (Jul 14)