[181568] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How long will it take to completely get rid of IPv4 or will it
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Sun Jun 28 01:06:48 2015
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From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
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Date: Sun, 28 Jun 2015 13:25:16 +1000
To: "bob@FiberInternetCenter.com" <bob@FiberInternetCenter.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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This is like the switch to using MX only for email rather than MX. and A for=
mon MX aware systems.
It will just happen and no one will notice.=20
Mark
On 28/06/2015, at 12:48, "Bob Evans" <bob@FiberInternetCenter.com> wrote:
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>> When will the change happen then you might ask. Very simple. If the
>> largest destinations like fb/twitter and others start to drop v4.
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> Agreed, IPv4 will be here a long time, because, not one company will risk
> financial loses and stock devaluation over address space. The day that a
> large company flips to IPv6 only in an IPv4 world will be the day to short=
> as many shares of that stock as possible.
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> This creates the big market for IPv4. Costs price per IP address must get
> beyond the price of a good lunch once per month. Because, that's an amount=
> that businesses understand and begin to pay attention. IPv4 address space
> is now a profit center and will cost more to the end user than transit and=
> network costs... Or... how will IPv6 catch on in any other way ?
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