[125509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Mon Apr 19 06:42:23 2010
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:42:04 +0200
In-Reply-To: <o2o3c3e3fca1004181811m95a1bae9v527f403a1470ce50@mail.gmail.com>
(William Herrin's message of "Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:11:38 -0400")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
* William Herrin:
> 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?
> Zero-sum game. Deploying a new IPv4 address will require removing one
> from some other function.
Not true. Many LIRs have traditionally avoided reclaiming unused
address space from (ex-)customers because it was cheaper to use fresh
addresses.
