[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently noone."

John Curran jcurran at istaff.org
Sun Feb 10 21:08:05 EST 2008


At 2:11 PM -0800 2/10/08, Michael Smith wrote:
>...
>So, here's the scenario I  see.
>
>1) None of the big content players implement IPv6 because "there is no 
>demand."
>2) None of the big eyeball providers get full-on IPv6 support for any 
>number of reasons.
>3) IPv4 addresses run out
>4) (1) and (2) above have a reasonable reserve to carry them for some 
>period of time.
>5) Smaller content providers have to start putting hosts on IPv6 only 
>because they're out of addresses.

So, (obligatory question), is there a change to allocation
policy which would address your concern?

/John



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