[ppml] Policy Proposal: Authentication of Legacy Resources

[John Paul Morrison]

I'm talking about the public Internet - if your printer is still happily 
running IPv4 within a private network that doesn't count.

Assuming IPv6 takes off on the public Internet, it will displace IPv4 
just because of the administrative overhead. Who's going to want to 
maintain two routing protocols in a large network for very long? Verify 
twice as many firewall rules? Patch and maintain two sets of drivers? If 
IPX, Appletalk and NetBEUI can disappear from the desktop, so can IPv4.

So assuming IPv6 replaces IPv4, it's pointless to chase down the legacy 
users since it will all become legacy.

If it doesn't, then there's a different set of issues, but others on the 
list have already made very good points against this proposal.


David Conrad wrote:
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:42 AM, John Paul Morrison wrote:
>> IPv4 is going to go away anyway,
>
> Why do you think this?
>
> Rgds,
> -drc