[125498] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Giagnocavo)
Sun Apr 18 21:28:32 2010
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:28:01 -0400
From: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <6760231.131.1271637891968.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local>
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Franck Martin 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?
>
Reality is that as soon as SSL web servers and SSL-capable web browsers
have support for name-based virtual hosts, the number of IPv4 addresses
required will drop. Right now, you need 1 IP address for 1 SSL site;
SNI spec of SSL gets rid of that.
--Patrick
