On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 6:29 PM, George Herbert <[email protected]> wrote: > There won't be much choice when the ISPs run out of IPv4 space to > allocate new users. > > As I said - we'll see it in Asia soon enough, and then the US down the > road a bit longer.
You mean, when they have so little IPv4 space that they can't even fit all of their customers behind NAT? If they have enough IPv4 addresses at present to give out dedicated addresses to all users, they'll run out of addresses using NAT when they have maybe 10,000 to 100,000 times as many users as now, which seems unlikely to be anytime in the foreseeable future -- especially if traffic starts shifting to IPv6. NAT isn't a cure-all, but it works fine for browsing websites, which is all that directly concerns Wikipedia. The point remains, websites that are only accessible via IPv4 are not in any danger of becoming unreachable anytime soon by a large number of people. On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 7:02 PM, River Tarnell <[email protected]> wrote: > That's what I said. They'll do "this" -- meaning IPv4 with CGNAT -- as > well as providing IPv6 access. Right. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
