[arin-ppml] IPv6 Heretic thoughts

Eliot Lear lear at cisco.com
Sat Sep 6 01:29:05 EDT 2008


Lee Dilkie wrote:
> I don't think the analogy is at all correct.
>
> Radio spectrum has a physical hard limit and there is no substitution
> (until subspace radio is invented). So obviously the effort has *always*
> been to improve utilization of a fixed resource. I see no reason why
> this won't continue.
>    

I don't believe we can say that IPv6 is a substitutable resource for 
IPv4 at this point in time.  IPv6 addresses gain you access to very few 
destinations today.

Eliot




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