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Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sun Apr 18 21:12:26 2010

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From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:11:38 -0400
To: Franck Martin <franck@genius.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Franck Martin <franck@genius.com> wrote:
> Sure the internet will not die...
>
> But by the time we run out of IPv4 to allocate, the IPv6 network
>will not have completed to dual stack the current IPv4 network.
>So what will happen?

Hi Franck,

Zero-sum game. Deploying a new IPv4 address will require removing one
from some other function.

Regards,
Bill Herrin



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