[177914] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 allocation plan, security, and 6-to-4 conversion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Barak)
Sun Feb 8 17:10:27 2015
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In-Reply-To: <D1B5B9F3-ADE2-489A-B405-7CD27C0044FF@delong.com>
From: David Barak <thegameiam@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 17:07:18 -0500
To: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Tore Anderson <tore@fud.no>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:49 PM, Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> wrote:
>=20
>=20
>> On Jan 30, 2015, at 18:07 , William Herrin <bill@herrin.us> wrote:
>> How about this: when Verizon starts decommissioning its IPv4
>> infrastructure on the basis that IPv6 is widespread enough to no
>> longer require the expense of dual-stack, IPv6 will have achieved
>> ubiquity.
>=20
> Um, no. The judgment of one traditional telephone company is hardly where I=
would look to contemplate the future of the internet.
Then AT&T, Comcast, Cox, Level3, etc, could be reasonable examples?
I think the general point is worth considering - when v4 gear is regularly b=
eing pulled out of commission by large carriers because "who needs it?" and r=
eplaced with v6 only gear, we will have achieved true ubiquity. I think you=
'll see v4 for quite a while. Heck, I still run across SNA, Token Ring, and=
other really old stuff occasionally...
David Barak
Sent from a mobile device, please forgive autocorrection.=
