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<i>Just my time-line perspective of IPv6</i>...<br>
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I recall sitting in my diploma of computer systems course at
my local TAFE<br>
doing a cisco networking module and spending a couple of hours
going over IPv6 in class in 2003. <br>
The teacher gave no urgency in the presentation to take up
v6(there was plenty of time was before we would have to use it.
Look where we are now... )<br>
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Regards<br>
Greg.<br>
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On 4/03/2013 10:20 AM, Mark Andrews wrote:<br>
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In message <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:42BFD036A64959438168E04FE15DFBC212DFBD48@NDC01EXCH.nextdc.local"><42BFD036A64959438168E04FE15DFBC212DFBD48@NDC01EXCH.nextdc.local></a>, B
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<pre wrap="">Sorry Mark. You said IPv4 has been "effectively" gone for more than a
decade. That statement is incorrect.
You may have known there was going to be a crunch in 10 years time,
particularly when the RIR's unfairly advantage existing members and sat on
their hands, sure.
But the fact is that over half the address space that wasn't "gifted" in
the early stages remained unallocated in 2003.
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Which still didn't mean that it wasn't a dead end technology. 10
years ago I had IPv6 at home via HE (signed up in Dec 2002). 10
years ago it was clear that there wasn't enough IPv4 addresses for
the house holds in the world let alone all the people. 10 years
ago I was asking my home ISP for IPv6 connectivity in the vain hope
that it might prompt them to be forward thinking.
Nothing could save IPv4 once it became a consumer technology which
it was in 2003. It was not designed to allow everyone in the world
to be able to connect with their own machine.
2003 was +10 years after the clear need for a IPv4 replacement was
seen. We are now at 20+ years after it was clear that IPv4 would
run out of addresses.
Mark
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In message <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:CD59FA6C.4301D%bevan@slattery.net.au"><CD59FA6C.4301D%bevan@slattery.net.au></a>, Bevan Slattery writes:
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On 3/03/13 11:51 PM, "Mark Andrews" <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:marka@isc.org"><marka@isc.org></a> wrote:
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In message <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:2202304f330f8b23da59c2edd117b412@mail.gmail.com"><2202304f330f8b23da59c2edd117b412@mail.gmail.com></a>, Jared
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<pre wrap="">I was not even given a option for v6 3 years ago when I joined
APNIC=3D85. So=3D
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am unsure how v4 was gone 5 years ago, if it was then new players
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<pre wrap="">have been educated and forced to take and use v6 3 years ago=3D85
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<pre wrap="">instead
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has been no forced take up?
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IPv4 has been effectively gone for more than a decade.
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That's simply incorrect.
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A decade ago we knew we would run out of IPv4 about now. As a long
term strategy it was dead. There was a couple of years in the error
bars but it was clear that we would run out. You could ignore IPv6
or you could ensure that you were ready for the eventual run out
of IPv4 by getting IPv6 connectivity and working through the issues.
5 years ago the estimates for IPv4 run out had error bars of a
couple of months.
Mark
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