IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31

Thu Oct 21 17:58:46 UTC 2010

On Thu, 21 Oct 2010, Jared Mauch wrote:

> How would you respond if that were announced? Carriers have been doing 
> technology transitions for years. Cidr to classless. Amps to CDMA or 
> gsm... This is not new.

My next question would be "How many times will that get extended/pushed 
back because somebody screams loudly enough?".  It will probably sunset 
around the time that v6 starts to run out of gas and people start thinking 
about IPv8 (assuming IPv7 would be treated like odd-numbered Linux kernel 
releases like 2.3.x, 2.5.x, etc - never to see the light of day) :)

jms