[AusNOG] [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. "

[Karl Auer]

On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 23:46 -0800, Mark ZZZ Smith wrote:
> Eventually we'll only have IPv6 networks, but that will be because it is fundamentally cheaper to run single protocol rather than multiple protocol networks, similar to how we used to run IPX/Appletalk/IPv4 networks and eventually ended up with just IPv4 networks for the past 10 to 15 years, because "everything over IP" was cheaper. However I don't see that happening any time soon.

I remember when we said we would stop routing AppleTalk at <mumble>.
That was after Apple finally got a working TCP/IP stack. The expectation
was that we would have to route AppleTalk for years to come, even though
it was being phased out. What actually happened was that after three
months there wasn't enough AppleTalk left on the net to be worth
worrying about. A few data collectors and similar were dealt with, and
AppleTalk went out without even a whimper, let alone a bang.

Can't help feeling that's what'll happen to IPv4.

Regards, K.

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