[158245] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Mon Nov 26 20:26:16 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:25:53 +0000
In-Reply-To: <9A395128-2A61-4A17-85B1-17890D1ACC2C@consultant.com>
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On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:07 AM, Cutler James R wrote:
> Those content/services/applications will only be reachable via IPv6 becau=
se that is all that can be deployed without truly horrendous and costly mis=
management of IPv4 address space.
Our views differ in that it is my belief that said truly horrendous and cos=
tly mismanagement of IPv4 address space is the norm now and will continue t=
o be the norm for the foreseeable future, absent some positive economic sti=
mulus to do otherwise.
> From a longer-than-next-month business viewpoint, it is more cost effecti=
ve to deploy IPv6 than to continue the crude IPv4 hacks previously mentione=
d.=20
When considering the entire value chain of Internet connectivity, I'm not s=
ure if that's a true statement, or that it will become a true statement in =
the foreseeable future.
> Please note that this does not imply instant turndown of existing IPv4.
Which is part of the problem.
;>
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