[136106] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: quietly....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Tue Feb 1 07:39:25 2011
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2011 20:39:18 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
In-Reply-To: <34265331-F8BD-4A49-BBF9-3E5BEB376DCC@muada.com>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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s/IPv6/ATM/g
Just saying...
Adrian
On Tue, Feb 01, 2011, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> On 1 feb 2011, at 13:01, Owen DeLong wrote:
>
> >>> IPv4 is very dead in the sense that it's not going to go anywhere in the future.
>
> >> taking the long view - your statement applies equally to IPv6.
>
> IPv6 has many places to go in the future. Of course the future is long, and there will be a point when IPv6 is no longer what's needed. But we're nowhere close to that point now.
>
> > I disagree. I think there is little, if any, innovation that will continue to be put
> > into IPv4 hence forth. I think there will be much innovation in IPv6 in the
> > coming years.
>
> I'm afraid it may be the other way around: lots of IPv4 innovation just so IPv6 can be avoided a few more years.
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