[AusNOG] Buying IPv4

[Paul Brooks]

On 14/03/2012 1:53 AM, Mark Delany wrote:
>> One of the key issues is that people are extremely slow in migrating or
>> planning to migrate their networks to IPv6.  They biggest problem being
>> that users don't know about it, and indeed should they even care?
>>
>> The way I see it will happen....
> Is it time to rehash the IPv6 design arguments of the 1990s where
> those pragmatists who favoured seamless transition lost and those who
> favoured ease-of-router-implementation and technical purity won?

No - its time to finally pull out the digit and make sure that in each of our little
patches of the Internet, the use of IPv4 is optional, not mandatory.
The time for talking and rehashing old arguments is over. The time for *doing* should
also be over, but doesn't seem to be yet.

P.