[181634] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ricky Beam)
Mon Jun 29 23:53:13 2015
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To: "Rafael Possamai" <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 23:53:09 -0400
From: "Ricky Beam" <jfbeam@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 27 Jun 2015 08:35:34 -0400, Rafael Possamai <rafael@gav.ufsc.br>
wrote:
> How long do you think it will take to completely get rid of IPv4? Or is
> it even going to happen at all?
Things like IPX and token-ring are still around. IPv4 isn't going anywhere
for decades. (if ever) Mostly because there are things that will *never*
run IPv6 that aren't going to get replaced just because of IPv6. (it's a
given most of those things don't live on the internet.)