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michael.dillon at bt.com
michael.dillon at bt.com
Wed May 20 15:32:04 CEST 2009
> To me, there's an implication here that we're talking about a > transition from IPv4 to IPv6, which (again, to me) implies > that there's a vision of IPv6 being the overwhelmingly > dominant protocol on the Internet with IPv4 marginalised > (e.g.) like DECNET and IPX in 2009. > > Does anybody here expect this to happen in their lifetimes? Yes. I used to think that this would take 10 years, but now I believe that it could happen faster because the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 is so much easier than IPX or DECNET to IP. > Or do people imagine that IPv4 is so entrenched that it will > never really go away, regardless of the growth in IPv6 deployment? I also believe this although it doesn't matter for the Internet anymore than all those devices currently working through I2C or RS232 to Ethernet proxies. > Just curious, really. There's a slight operational base for > the question, which is that a transition implies IPv6-only > nodes, whereas an entrenched IPv4 Internet means we'll be > dual-stack for ever. In a datacenter I expect that folks are already deploying IPv6-only servers. But then datacenters already hide behind a forest of load-balancers, caching proxies and so on. One size does not fit all. --Michael Dillon
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