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

[Joe Maimon]

Chris Grundemann wrote:
> 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.
/marginal/
> 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.

It doesnt sound like we disagree at all. I agree with your statement and 
you agree with mine.

That all time high is however, pitifully small compared to where it was 
expected and hoped to be.

A lot more of almost nothing is still just a little more than nothing.


>   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.

Credit for the advances you cite goes to advocacy and public relations, 
not to actual hardships experienced by those attempting to obtain and 
utilize IPv4.

While the former looks to be a long hard slow slog, the latter is 
exceedingly unwise to attempt to embark on.

Joe