[158293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Big day for IPv6 - 1% native penetration
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Tue Nov 27 18:01:47 2012
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1211271746210.27834@uplift.swm.pp.se>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:00:13 -0800
To: Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Nov 27, 2012, at 8:47 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike@swm.pp.se> =
wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Nov 2012, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
>=20
>> Obviously, they deployed IPv6 for other reasons, and it would be far =
more useful to know *why* they deployed it in the first place (i.e., as =
an experiment, because their user base is outstripping their IPv4 =
allocations, etc.).
>=20
> IPv6 deployment is not a short-term answer to IPv4 exhaustion. Can we =
please just put this to rest?
>=20
It's the only answer we have. Yes, it's not short enough term, so we =
will have to deploy some hacks along the way to try and keep things =
running, but, if we don't also continue (and seriously accelerate) IPv6 =
deployment in parallel, we're in for some serious hurt in the near =
future.
Owen
