IP4 Space

Mark Newton newton at internode.com.au
Wed Mar 24 03:54:45 UTC 2010


On 24/03/2010, at 1:46 PM, <bmanning at vacation.karoshi.com> wrote:

> 
> tell me Mark,
> 
> 	when will you turn off -all- IPv4 in your network?

I don't imagine there'll be a date as such;  We'll just enable
IPv6 versions of the services you've mentioned on equipment which
supports it, and note that over time the number of systems still
using v6 to perform those functions diminishes.

> 	simple switching of datagrams over non-v4 transport is trivial.  th O&M behnd
> 	running production is a slightly longer path and the legal requirements these
> 	days didn't exisit a decade ago.  Chris was optimistic at 10+ years.


There seems to be an assumption that continuing to run v4 on a v6 internet
will be free, or at least cheap.

I don't think it will be.  I think it'll rapidly become horrendously expensive
in operational support terms, and that we'll all see significant pressure from
our CFOs and CTOs to get rid of it well before the ten-year estimate expires.

... and if we don't, our customers will.

  - mark

--
Mark Newton                               Email:  newton at internode.com.au (W)
Network Engineer                          Email:  newton at atdot.dotat.org  (H)
Internode Pty Ltd                         Desk:   +61-8-82282999
"Network Man" - Anagram of "Mark Newton"  Mobile: +61-416-202-223









More information about the NANOG mailing list