[124108] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Tue Mar 23 23:55:25 2010
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: "<bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>" <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:24:45 +1030
In-Reply-To: <20100324031611.GB4441@vacation.karoshi.com.>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 24/03/2010, at 1:46 PM, <bmanning@vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:
>=20
> tell me Mark,
>=20
> when will you turn off -all- IPv4 in your network?
I don't imagine there'll be a date as such; We'll just enable
IPv6 versions of the services you've mentioned on equipment which
supports it, and note that over time the number of systems still
using v6 to perform those functions diminishes.
> simple switching of datagrams over non-v4 transport is trivial. th O&M =
behnd
> running production is a slightly longer path and the legal requirements =
these
> days didn't exisit a decade ago. Chris was optimistic at 10+ years.
There seems to be an assumption that continuing to run v4 on a v6 internet
will be free, or at least cheap.
I don't think it will be. I think it'll rapidly become horrendously expens=
ive
in operational support terms, and that we'll all see significant pressure f=
rom
our CFOs and CTOs to get rid of it well before the ten-year estimate expire=
s.
... and if we don't, our customers will.
- mark
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