[arin-ppml] ARIN-prop-162 Redefining request window in 4.2.4.4

[Chris Grundemann]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 08:45, Joe Maimon <jmaimon at chl.com> wrote:

> The existence of IPv6 has not made IPv4 any less relevant or in demand. The
> runout and exhaustion of IPv4 has not may IPv6 any more then marginally more
> relevant and in demand.

I must disagree with you here Joe. While I do agree that IPv6 has not
made IPv4 any less relevant yet (and it won't until we reach some
tipping point in global adoption), I have to take issue with the
second statement.

IPv6 interest, demand, and deployment is at an all time high. Since
the protocol is more than a decade old, I have to attribute at least
some of this to the exhaustion of IPv4 free pools. General awareness
of IPv6 has skyrocketed in the past 2 years. IPv6 deployments at major
service providers have recently started shifting from trials to
production roll-outs. IPv6 is happening and I think that we must give
some of the credit to IPv4 free pool exhaustion. Yes, we have a long
way to go - we're not even close to done yet, but iPv6 is absolutely
more relevant and more in demand than ever before. See:
www.worldipv6launch.org which crashed on the day of the press release
because they received as much traffic in the first few hours as they
did in the entire time that last year's event was active.

I don't think that any of this necessarily points to a need to change
IPv4 policy, but I do think that it was worth pointing out.

Cheers,
~Chris


> Best,
>
> Joe
>
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