[184307] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: How to force rapid ipv6 adoption
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Wicks)
Thu Oct 1 20:45:46 2015
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From: "Tony Wicks" <tony@wicks.co.nz>
To: "'NANOG list'" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2015 13:45:22 +1300
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> That sounds like only using 6to4 addresses until the entire internet
supports IPv6.
> Unfortunately there were NEVER enough IPv4 addresses to actually do that.
We
> were effectively out of IPv4 addresses before we started.
>
People tend to forget that TCP/IP was not the only routing protocol out
there all those years ago. What if OSI or one of the others had prospered
instead ? IPv4 kind of morphed into the Internet as we know it more it more
from good luck than good planning I would say. Things could have been a lot
worse !
To name a few - IPX, X25, Banyan Vines, DECnet and even Appletalk! Ovbiously
many of these could not grow into the "internet" but.....
