Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:33:25 EDT, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ said: I'm working on it ... But I think it will be really difficult to capture in a couple of pages what the document try to explain ! The story goes: Richard Feynman, the late Nobel Laureate in physics, was once asked by a Caltech

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Brandon Butterworth
I'm working on it ... But I think it will be really difficult to capture in a couple of pages what the document try to explain ! A. v4 runs out, use v6 or similar B. not run out of v4 The detail of A and B may safely be debated by all for some time as nobody knows what will happen, feel free

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
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

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread Stephen Wilcox
Hmm I find this topic quite interesting. First is the belief that the Internet will suddenly break on the day when the last IP block is allocated by an RIR - the fact that most of the v4 space is currently not being announced may mean we have many years before there are real widespread

Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

2007-06-28 Thread John Curran
Steve - For the first end site that has to connect via IPv6, it will be very bad if there is not a base of IPv6 web/email sites already in place. While there are going to efforts to recover unused IPv4 space, we're currently going through 10 to 12 blocks of /8 size

Re: An IPv6 address for new cars in 3 years?

2007-06-28 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Fri, 29 Jun 2007, Paul Ferguson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Suresh Ramasubramanian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/29/07, Rich Emmings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Topicality: Looks like someone, somewhere intends to be live with IPv6 in 3-5 years. Off