On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Whisper wrote: > Its quite possibly the the Y2K that we had to have. :)
Not really. The problem with Y2K was the danger of working systems stop working/behaving as expected. The problem with IPv4/IPv6 is about growth. When IPv4 blocks reach the exhaustion point, the public Internet can't keep growing... but current systems will keep on working. > Maybe the US DoD and the US government in general will hand back all their > IPv4 address blocks when they supposedly cut over to IPv6, who knows? Doesn't make a lot of sense to me... There's also the possibility of a market, instead of the current global (almost free) distribution system. And it's not foreseeable anyone will give their addresses back, if some money can be *possibly* made from that at any point in future. > Jeff Doyle has being going on about it for ages on his Network World > CiscoSubnet blog http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=doyle > > Geoff Huston also talks a lot about IPv4 address exhaustion on his site: > http://www.potaroo.net/ Try http://ipv4.potaroo.net instead... > The interesting thing in the client space, other than your Cisco ISR's I > don't think there are any retail modems that do IPv6. Yay Cisco. Most really don't as we speak, but there it's not a 0% figure. > A good summary of issues can be found in this document > http://rip.psg.com/%7Erandy/070722.v6-op-reality.pdf > > Got to love Microsoft, XP has a Windows IPv6 stack that doesn't do native > IPv6 DNS lookups. Not an issue while IPv4+IPv6 is possible. Vista has this issue solved, afaik. > So I'm pretty pessimistic at the moment Most of my pessimism comes from looking at the number of ASes in the IPv4 routing table, and finding only about 3% of them in the global IPv6 routing table...... Low priority is one thing. Hiding head in the sand is something different. ./Carlos > Let the fun begin. > > On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Patrick J Greene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> I keep seeing all of these articles about IPv6 being put off until the >> last minute and then we will all have to scramble to put it in( >> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/033108-ntt-anerica-ipv6.html) . >> What are your thoughts and plans? Is anybody really running out of IP >> space, other that ARIN? Need we need to be looking at getting IPv6 Internet >> connections and hosting on IPv6 now? What about non ISP's? Does corporate >> America really need to worry? >> >> Thanks, >> Patrick >> _______________________________________________ >> cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] >> https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp >> archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ >> > _______________________________________________ > cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] > https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp > archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/ _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
