IPv4 sunset date revised : 2009-02-05

Sat Oct 23 16:21:16 UTC 2010

The idea was to observe and measure an (almost) all IPv4 network and
its management/infrastructure costs, namely the one we got, not an
IPv6 one, before the transition starts to muddy the waters
significantly.

   -b

On October 22, 2010 at 18:03 bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com (bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com) wrote:
 > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 01:28:24PM -0400, Barry Shein wrote:
 > > 
 > > It occurs to me that there is some pressing need to investigate this
 > > all-IPv6 internet -- motivated by the cost of (not) maintaining IPv4
 > > forever.
 > > 
 > > Right now we can observe essentially an all-IPv4 internet (99%,
 > > whatever.)
 > > 
 > > -- 
 > >         -Barry Shein
 > 
 > 
 > 	For this, you need to leave the comfort of NANOG and look
 > 	at the CERNnet network over the past ten years.  They have
 > 	been running a large, all IPv6 network for some time now.
 > 
 > 
 > 	http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/Cannes-19148-IPv6-development-China-Outline-Efforts-CERNET-History-Testbed-1-2-3-4-5-Next-Generation-Inter-in-as-Entertainment-ppt-powerpoint/
 > 
 > 	www.cs.princeton.edu/~yiwang/papers/iscc05.pdf
 > 
 > 	http://www.cernet2.edu.cn/en/char.htm
 > 
 > 
 > --bill

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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