[136734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Benson Schliesser)
Fri Feb 4 14:13:51 2011
From: Benson Schliesser <bensons@queuefull.net>
In-Reply-To: <D9A51B92-2B43-44C7-A0DA-C05BA5922033@cisco.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 13:13:07 -0600
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>,
Heinrich Strauss <heinrich@hstrauss.co.za>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 4, 2011, at 1:08 PM, Fred Baker wrote:
> On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Heinrich Strauss wrote:
>> So once the "early" adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is =
no business need to maintain the IPv4 allocation and that will be =
returned to the free pool, since Business would see it as an unnecessary =
cost.
>=20
> Interesting reasoning. I would think that until we have pretty wide =
IPv4 implementation, the business need to keep the allocation is to talk =
with the people who have not yet implemented it. =46rom a Reductio ad =
Absurdum perspective, imagine that facebook or youtube, now that they =
have implemented IPv6, felt obliged to give up their IPv4 allocation =
immediately? It would mean that they were out of business, which I =
should think might be an excellent business reason to not deploy IPv6.
Exactly. Which means that folks deploying IPv6 will keep their IPv4 =
until no longer needed. Which in turn means that the value of =
redeploying those returned addresses would be minimal - the Internet =
would be dominantly IPv6 at that point in time.
Cheers,
-Benson
