IP4 Space

[frnkblk at iname.com (Frank Bulk - iName.com)]

When we were running AppleTalk and IPX not many of us had corporate access
to the internet.  I remember those IPX days, and one of the driving reasons
to move to IP was to get internet access.  I remember adding IP to our
Netware 4.x servers.  Because IPv4 is the lingua franca of the internet, I
don't think we can directly compare it to AppleTalk and IPX.

Frank

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Newton [mailto:newton at internode.com.au] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2010 10:00 PM
To: Christopher Morrow
Cc: NANOG list
Subject: Re: IP4 Space


On 24/03/2010, at 4:10 AM, Christopher Morrow wrote:
> 
> it seems to me that we'll have widespread ipv4 for +10 years at least,

How many 10 year old pieces of kit do you have on your network?

Ten years ago we were routing appletalk and IPX.  Still doing that
now?

Ten years ago companies were still selling ISDN routers which still
insisted on classful addressing.  Got any of them left on the network?

I'd expect that v4 will still exist in legacy form behind firewalls, 
but I think its deprecation on the public internet will happen a lot
faster than anyone expects.

> I agree that v6 deployments seem to be getting
> better/faster/stronger... I think that's good news, but we'll still be
> paying the v4 piper for a while.

Only until v4 becomes more expensive (using whatever metric matters to
you) than v6.

After you pass that tipping point, v4 deployment will stop dead.

  - mark

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