[123301] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Thu Mar 4 21:30:52 2010
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2010 13:00:22 +1030
In-Reply-To: <862A664C-A61F-4119-9F22-2FC9785A49D0@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 05/03/2010, at 12:25 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> The most we could achieve would be to extend IPv4 freepool lifespan
> by roughly 26 days. Given the amount of effort sqeezing useful
> addresses out of such a conversion would require, I proffer that
> such effort is better spent moving towards IPv6 dual stack on your
> networks.
... and, unstated behind that, is the observation that pretty much any
proposed effort to squeeze more time out of IPv4 will inevitably have
the same answer :-)
- mark
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