[arin-ppml] v4 to v6 obstacles

Seth Mattinen sethm at rollernet.us
Wed Oct 28 15:44:47 EDT 2009


Lee Dilkie wrote:
> My comment on the subject, repeated from last year.
> 
> The only proper way forward is dual stack and the faster we achieve some
> magic number (80%?) of dual stack penetration, the faster we can roll
> out v6 only.
> 
> One good way for organizations like ARIN to help with dual stack is to
> simply give out v6 addresses, free, to all current v4 address holders
> and encourage them to roll it out. Or add a stick like "here's your free
> v6, you have x years to roll out v6 to your customers or you loose your
> v4"... not that I favour the stick, just tossing it out.
> 

It won't help until IPv6 has routability parity to that of IPv4 among
the big players.

~Seth



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