[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently no one."

[Geoff Huston]

John Curran wrote:
> At 8:34 PM -0800 2/8/08, David Conrad wrote:
>> On Feb 8, 2008, at 7:34 PM, John Curran wrote:
>>> when does the carrier community tell their customers that increasing
>>> numbers of new Internet sites are likely to be reachable only
>>> via IPv6?
>> When there actually are sites their customers might care about that are only reachable via IPv6?
> 
> Wouldn't you actually want to tell them before, so that
> they could have enough time to plan accordingly?

As far as I can tell right now there is a large amount of faith out 
there that all of this is just a beat up and that NATs will do the 
protocol translation magic without any major fuss. The reality injection 
will take some time in the face of the accumulated inertia we've 
accreted with IPv4.


   Geoff