[138195] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Mac OS X 10.7, still no DHCPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Majdi S. Abbas)
Mon Feb 28 20:38:15 2011
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:38:08 -0700
From: "Majdi S. Abbas" <msa@latt.net>
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <BDAEC2D1-07FF-41A4-A151-1925F2EB91EF@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:00:16PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Ready or not, IPv6-only (or reasonably IPv6-only) residential
> customers are less than 2 years out, so, well within
> your 5-year planning horizon, whether those ISPs see that or
> not. Denial is an impressive human phenomenon.
Denial is indeed impressive:
v6 only is not the only option for residential customers
already used to functioning behind NAT.
I, for one, welcome our new CGN overlords...
> In five years we should be just about ready to start deprecating IPv4,
> if not already beginning to do so.
Considering it's taken us 15 years to get this far... I think
that's pretty optimistic.
Anyone care to start the IPv4 dead pool, Price is Right
style, for when the last v4 NLRI is removed from the DFZ?
--msa
