[NANOG] fair warning: less than 1000 days left to IPv4 exhaustion

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Fri May 2 22:08:22 UTC 2008


Sean Figgins wrote:
>> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM, Mike Leber <mleber at he.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Since nobody mentioned it yet, there are now less than 1000 days projected
>>> until IPv4 exhaustion:
> 
> No worries, the Internet is going to end in 2010, and the world ends on 
> December 21, 2012.  I don't think we'll be needing IPv6 in that case.
> 
> Has anyone ever figured out how to make multi-homing of customers who 
> only have a /64 assigned to them work? 

how are your /32 v4 announcements working out?

longest prefix I carry in my v6 table are a /48s...

There are only 28224 ASes in announced in the v4  routing system how 
many non-agregatable announcements will they represent if they all 
participate in v6 tomorrow?

> Are the routers on the going to 
> be able to handle the billion routing prefixed that will be introduced? 
>   Are there any IP Management software packages that won't bankrupt the 
> world's economy for IPv6 charges?
> 
> Maybe the world really will end, and it's all due to IPv6!
> 
>   -Sean
> 
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