ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

Sat Jun 27 15:02:22 UTC 2015

I'd give it another 20 yrs of v4, v6 addressing and all those letters are
to hard for us old folk, we'll find ways to make it make it work :)

On Sat, Jun 27, 2015 at 11:54 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <swmike at swm.pp.se>
wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Jun 2015, Rafael Possamai wrote:
>
>  How long do you think it will take to completely get rid of IPv4? Or is
>> it even going to happen at all?
>>
>
> I believe somewhere around 2018-2025 a lot of ISPs, hosting providers etc
> will start to treat IPv4 as a second rate citizen and for the people still
> single-stacked to IPv4 by then, the Internet experience is going to become
> so bad that they'll beg to get IPv6 and the ones not providing it will feel
> severe business impact of not doing IPv6.
>
> Mobile providers will be the first huge ones to go IPv6 only to the
> devices, which will mean that from your mobile device, IPv4 will most
> likely work worse than IPv6. Then it's downhill from there.
>
> --
> Mikael Abrahamsson    email: swmike at swm.pp.se
>