[AusNOG] Getting there from here (was: Re: My Predictions for the ISP Industry)

[Christopher Pollock]

> I don't for one second believe ipv4 will even look like being vanished
for another decade or more.

I don't believe anyone is saying that it will.

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On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 12:04 PM, Noel Butler <noel.butler at ausics.net>wrote:

> **
> On Wed, 2012-03-14 at 12:18 +1030, Mark Newton wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 11:44:40AM +1000, Noel Butler wrote:
>
>  > > Really? In which decade do you think that facebook.com, yahoo.com,
>  > > twitter.com and google.com will stop returning an A RR? And what is
>  > > their incentive for doing so?
>  > > You need to explain why a business would voluntarily stop listening to
>  > > IPv4 traffic and why ISPs would stop carrying it.
>  >
>  > +1
>  > The whole world is not going to start using ipv6 overnight just
>  > because  .au is out of ipv4, let alone turn off ipv4,
>
> I'm a little bit bothered that ISP professionals in 2012 seem to
> seriously believe that an IPv6 deployment involves disabling IPv4.
>
> How widespread is this misbelief?
>
> I'd fully expect that legacy IPv4 will stick around for the
> forseeable future.  It'll suck, and be heavily multi-NATted, and
> fewer and fewer people will use it;  But it isn't going away for
> quite a while.
>
>
>
>
> My point was Mark, once we run out of ipv4, long before the rest of the
> world, and end users here can only be issued with ipv6, with the majority
> of the world not using ipv6, it will be a lonely place, unless ISP's
> configure kinda like nat 6 to 4 since 4 is the dominant.
> I don't for one second believe ipv4 will even look like being vanished for
> another decade or more.
>
>
>
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