[address-policy-wg] 2019-02 New Policy Proposal (Reducing IPv4 Allocations to a /24)
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Carlos Friaças
cfriacas at fccn.pt
Thu Feb 7 12:44:13 CET 2019
On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Martin Hun?k wrote: >> Or go to "the IPv4 market". > > Also a possibility, but it would cost additional money. Sure, but that's life. And it doesn't mean IPv4 is being abandoned. :/ >> IPv4 is NOT "walking dead". It's the Internet's dominant protocol version, >> whether we like it or not! >> >> How many orgs have gone public about plans to completely drop IPv4? >> >> IPv4 has a serious limitation about "future growth", which IPv6 doesn't >> have. But people are making (a lot of?) money pushing IPv4 numbers >> from hand to hand, so it is hard for me (at this point, from a research & >> education network background!) to see how IPv4 will stop being the >> dominant version... > > Yes it is still dominant, no dispute here. But as well we (theoretically) > buried it long time ago. That's why the "walking dead" thing. Point is that > with up to /32 in routing tables we would be investing RAM on IPv4 instead of > for IPv6 deployment (if not done already). Maybe. But that will be each ORG's choice, -if- prefixes longer than /24 start to get accepted. > And yes, there is quite a lot of money in IPv4. In hypothetical IPv6-only > world, IP brokers would starve to death. :-) Businesses are born, they get mature and eventually they stop making sense. It's a normal lifecycle... Regards, Carlos > Regards, > Martin
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