[161416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Mar 12 15:28:02 2013
In-Reply-To: <88D17156-6750-4833-BFB3-86E88486A679@delong.com>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:27:31 -0400
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
> Once IPv6 is sufficiently ubiquitous (rough estimate,
> but say 900+ of the Alexa 1000 sites have IPv6 and ~95%
> of eyeball networks), you'll see a rapidly declining desire to
> pay the increased cost of supporting IPv4.
While that is surely true, it's not on a trajectory to happen this
year. Or next year. Or the year after that. Call dual-stack an
"intermediate" solution. Treat is as "temporary" or "very temporary"
at your peril.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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