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

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael K. Smith - Adhost [mailto:mksmith at adhost.com]
>Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 2:53 PM
>To: Ted Mittelstaedt; Paul Vixie
>Cc: ppml at arin.net
>Subject: RE: [ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion?
>Apparentlynoone."
>
>
>I punted to Ted off list about the finer technical points of the 
>above hack.  But, I think it does point out an excellent, urm, 
>point.  We have more IPv6 addresses than we know what to do with 
>and I'm already well down the path of being able to provide them 
>to my customers.  I would gladly do so.  And yet, we have to come 
>up with all of these various ways to hack our way into extending 
>the life of IPv4.  

> Why?

Sigh.

There are still too many "2nd tier" ie: transit AS ISPs/networks out
there who can't route IPv6 yet (you can look at my AS-path list for an
example) although I'm told it's "real soon now"

Maybe in a few years someone could setup an "IPv6 hall O shame"
kind of like the pizza place near here that posts all the bounced
checks they get on a bulletin board, which might spur the last ones
to start routing it?

Ted