[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. "

[Scott Howard]

There weren't a billion devices from countless thousands of manufacturers
used by billions of people - most of them non-technical - running AppleTalk.

  Scott


On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 11:58 PM, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> 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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