[97675] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Jun 29 09:38:00 2007
To: Alexander Harrowell <a.harrowell@gmail.com>
Cc: jordi.palet@consulintel.es, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:36 BST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:06:52 -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:36 BST, Alexander Harrowell said:
> 1. IPv4 address space is a scarce resource and it will soon be exhausted.
>
> 2. It hasn't run out already due to various efficiency improvements.
>
> 3. These are themselves limited.
>
> 4. IPv6, though, will provide abundant address space.
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> 5. But there's no incentive to change until enough others do so to
> make it worthwhile.
>
> 6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional
> solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among
> small actors to achieve such leadership.
7. RFC2827 flame-fests on NANOG have gotten boring. Let's have them for IPv6
instead. :)
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