[AusNOG] FW: [Ap-ipv6tf] official shutdown date for IPv4. The date he is pushing for is April 4, 2024. "IPv4 can't go on forever, " Latour said. "

[Paul van den Bergen]

Last time I looked at IPv6 was circa 2003.

The thing that struck me most about the protocol is that everyone is
talking about it as though the best thing is solving the pending IPv4
address limit.

To me, the single most interesting aspects of the protocol are, in order of
importance...

1) IPSEC.
2) automatic routing and discovery.
3) Getting rid of NAT

"Getting rid of NAT" is the real problem that is called "IPv4 addresses are
running out"... NAT gets in the way, makes firewalls more complicated, less
admin friendly, and leads to lots of daft workarounds to allow end to end
connectivity that should be easy by now...

In reality, it's the combination of these three aspects working together
that make IPv6 a killer protocol IMHO...

I suspect the main thing limiting take up is inertia and inexperience...
but I'm happy to be wrong about that :-/




On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Matt Palmer <mpalmer at hezmatt.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 01:53:05PM +1100, Michael Biber wrote:
> > Certainly more memorable, but perhaps too far away to provide the
> incentive.
>
> No way in hell IPv4 is going to be ready to be turned off in 10 years.
> It'll probably be "optional" by then, in the sense that your average home
> DSL[1] might not have IPv4 service by default, but I doubt it won't be
> supported by most ISPs in some shape or another.
>
> - Matt
>
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Dr Paul van den Bergen
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