[AusNOG] IPocalypse now (?)

[Leo Vegoda]

On 31 Jan 2011, at 4:11, Alastair Johnson wrote:

> It was discussed quite a bit in 2007 in the IETF, but the concerns were that it wouldn't give much additional lifetime (18-24 months), and it would be a considerable upgrade to every host on the Internet that you may as well just go to IPv6.

Going on last year, that 16 /8s would buy you less than 12 months (we allocated 19 /8s last year). Alternatively, legacy system support would never arrive and they'd be as good as useless.

Implementing IPv6 is likely far less effort and buys you much, much more.

Regards,

Leo