Have major universities and others with huge public address spaces converted to IPV6? Seems if the large consumers of IPV4 space transition to IPV6 and give up those IPV4 spaces, the rest of the world could get another 5-10 years from IPV4.
Regarding IPV4 and IPV6 not interoperating, that would be silly if true. The world isn't going to abandon IPV4 in a year or even 10 years, and having separate Internet spaces that can't communicate is unacceptable. Clearly interoperation is on the menu: http://www.ipv6.com/articles/hardware/IPv6-Interoperability.htm Of course, the necessary hardware resources must be applied and when push comes to shove, somebody will build/buy/pay-for them. Carl -----Original Message----- From: Kurt Buff [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 10, 2010 1:44 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: IPv6 I'm following an interesting conversation on the SAGE list regarding the worsening shortage of IPv4 addresses, and the need to plan for IPv6 transition. Have any of you worked on a plan, or even fully or partially implemented, IPv6 in your environments? If so, do you have any wisdom to share? Beyond knowing that it exists, and is supposed to replace IPv4, I have no real world knowledge or experience with it, and was wondering what kind of mind share the issue has with this community. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
