[124935] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Wed Apr 7 17:50:11 2010
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <1270673544.20802.14.camel@petrie>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:49:27 -1000
To: William Pitcock <nenolod@systeminplace.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:52 AM, William Pitcock wrote:
> And when there are no eyeballs to look at your IPv4 content because =
your
> average comcast user is on IPv6?
The chances of this actually occurring in our lifetime are so small as =
to be meaningless. There are (according to published reports) between 1 =
and 2 billion people reachable on IPv4. No rational commercial Internet =
organization is going to block themselves off from that customer base. =
Folks like Comcast will probably add IPv6 support _in addition to_ IPv4. =
Eventually, they may even add a surcharge to encourage people to =
migrate off IPv4, but I'd imagine that's way down the line. By way of =
analogy, how long did pulse dialing continue to be supported in the =
phone system after DTMF was introduced?
Regards,
-drc=
