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Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
- Subject: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?
- From: fw at deneb.enyo.de (Florian Weimer)
- Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:42:04 +0200
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]> (William Herrin's message of "Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:11:38 -0400")
- References: <m2ochge1o0.wl%[email protected]> <6760231.131.1271637891968.JavaMail.franck@franck-martins-macbook-pro.local> <[email protected]>
* William Herrin:
> On Sun, Apr 18, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Franck Martin <franck at genius.com> wrote:
>> Sure the internet will not die...
>>
>> But by the time we run out of IPv4 to allocate, the IPv6 network
>>will not have completed to dual stack the current IPv4 network.
>>So what will happen?
> Zero-sum game. Deploying a new IPv4 address will require removing one
> from some other function.
Not true. Many LIRs have traditionally avoided reclaiming unused
address space from (ex-)customers because it was cheaper to use fresh
addresses.