[161417] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What Should an Engineer Address when 'Selling' IPv6 to Executives?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Thomas)
Tue Mar 12 15:33:28 2013
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 12:32:49 -0700
From: Michael Thomas <mike@mtcc.com>
To: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
In-Reply-To: <CAP-guGXar14Yo9K2xmnKs3-z3hJF8u443Bk+cZvCemoH6R4qrA@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On 03/12/2013 12:27 PM, William Herrin wrote:
> 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.
>
Will dual stack cease to be before we all cease to be? Barring
an immortality breakthrough, I'll bet on me first.
Mike
