[182355] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dual stack IPv6 for IPv4 depletion
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Maimon)
Wed Jul 15 13:24:37 2015
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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 13:24:29 -0400
From: Joe Maimon <jmaimon@ttec.com>
To: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>, George Metz <george.metz@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150715010018.CC3C733059FF@rock.dv.isc.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <CANjVB-jbtc4V5yba0xtGA7N5geQcz86hvydj4J9J8UxhzMMEZw@mail.gmail.com>
> We don't use Class E because were using up IPv4 space too quickly
> to make it worthwhile to make it work cleanly for everyone.
That is a self fulfilling prophecy.
I suspect a 16 /8 right about now would be very welcome for everybody
other then the ipv6 adherents.
Seems like procrastination is only bad when its your baby.
The jury is still out on class E, but the verdict is in for the
community who created it.
Joe