[103022] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: cost of dual-stack vs cost of v6-only [Re: IPv6 on SOHO routers?]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Thu Mar 13 12:06:47 2008
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2008 08:51:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: thegameiam@yahoo.com
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20080313153728.GA92457@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
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--- On Thu, 3/13/08, Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org> wrote:
> Now think hard about a prediction we'll still be
> running IPv4 in 20
> years. A two decade transition period just does not fit
> this industry's
> history.
To be fair, I've encourntered an awful lot of SNA which is still out there, so you might be surprised how long things linger. But your point is well taken - once IPv4 stops being the primary internetworking protocol, it'll be reduced to special cases pretty quickly.
David Barak
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