[124107] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Mar 23 23:38:27 2010
In-Reply-To: <7DFF0D2A-3D26-44B9-A0C7-7C4B5F1FD77E@internode.com.au>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:37:27 -0400
To: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au> wrote:
> Only until v4 becomes more expensive (using whatever metric matters to
> you) than v6.
>
> After you pass that tipping point, v4 deployment will stop dead.
Mark,
You offer an accurate but incomplete assessment. IPv4 allocation's
upcoming transition to a zero-sum game might not push it above the
"cost" of IPv6. The economics in play haven't ruled out the
possibility. Should that occur, IPv6 will tend to fade to the
background during the following table-size driven router upgrade
cycle.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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