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[ NNSquad ] Re: Predicting a black market in IPv4 addresses
Lauren, Le 04/05/2010 06:23, Lauren Weinstein a écrit : > Predicting a black market in IPv4 addresses > > http://bit.ly/bqe66X (Infoworld) > > One line in this interesting article on IPv4 depletion especially > attracted my attention: > > " ... predict that many new servers will be IPv6-exclusive, gradually > isolating IPv4-only Internet users." > > As rapid as practicable a migration to IPv6 is obviously necessary and > to be strongly encouraged. But I have a hunch that resourceful users > will employ various cooperative techniques to avoid being > significantly stranded on Gilligan's IPv4 Island, at least in the > short term. So my suspicion is that the problem of IPv6-only > servers -- at least in terms of services that most IPv4 users are > interested in accessing, will be minimized via such methods for > a significant period of time. > > Having followed this subject for a long time, and having participated in debates on both sides of the pond, I can only urge that the US stops thinking nostalgically about IPv4. Every debate and every article about IPv6 adoption ends up focussing on IPv4 decommissioning, which is not the challenge in the short term. In the short term, we need to get our resources to run in dual stack. To the question "Can we get out in time?", my reply would be "no, we're already too late" - at least, that's the feeling we all got at the EURODIG (European Dialogue in Internet Governance) conference last week. Draft report on: http://www.eurodig.org/eurodig-2010/programme/workshops/workshop-4 The time for IPv6 update is "right now". Kind regards, Olivier -- Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD http://www.gih.com/ocl.html