[address-policy-wg] 2007-08 New Policy Proposal (Enabling Methods for Reallocation of IPv4 Resources)

On 29 okt 2007, at 15:10, Max Tulyev wrote:

>> If you are in need of new address space, your choice is to go hunt  
>> for
>> IPv4 space, which will get harder and harder, or upgrade to IPv6,  
>> which
>> will become easier and easier.

> IPv6 Internet is working even now, but completely useless. Because of
> there is no resources at all.

I don't need an IPv4 address to talk to my mail server in order to  
send this message. (Although the mail server still needs an IPv4  
address; RIPE's mailservers are IPv4-only
...)

So even though you can't do a search and replace and get rid of IPv4  
everywhere today, I'm pretty sure EVERYONE can add more IPv6 than they  
have now.

> In my opinion, the concrete goal is make 51% of _resources_ (not  
> users)
> to be reachable through IPv6 before we run out of IPv4. If it  
> succeeds,
> other 49% will go with "the majority", if not - IPv6 migration
> completely fails and something other (NAT, secondary market of IPv4,
> higher level proxies over non-IP protocols, ...) will be implemented
> instead.

I don't think it's a good use of our time to consider the possible  
failure of IPv6. Adoption will be slow, but the future goes on for a  
long time, it doesn't have to be fast, we can still get where we need  
to be eventually as long as we keep going in the right direction.

Iljitsch