[AusNOG] My Predictions for the ISP Industry

[Noel Butler]

On Tue, 2012-03-13 at 15:52 +0000, Mark Delany wrote:

> > But, it will take most ISPs a year or two to fully integrate IPv6 into
> > their networks, and those who haven't started doing it yet, might as well
> > be planning to shut down their businesses because in the next year or two,
> > it will be too late...
> 
> 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.
> 
> If you have no explanation for that, then what has any ISP got to lose
> by just carrying IPv4? After all, it gets to everywhere and probably
> will do so for a very long time into the future.
> 


+1  

The whole world is not going to start using ipv6 overnight just
because  .au is out of ipv4, let alone turn off ipv4, especially when
most the world still doesn't use ipv6, Australia would soon be an
isolated country, in more ways than one.



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