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

At 15:14 29/10/2007, Mark Pace Balzan wrote:


> >
> > IPv6 Internet is working even now, but completely useless. Because of
> > there is no resources at all.
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
>my 2c worth:
>
>v4 and v6 will co-exist for a while, whether we like it or not, and
>therefore v4 and v6 stuff will need a way to get to each other depending
>on the service at hand.


They will co-exist for a long while due to lack of pressure from the users. If v4 really runs out, there will start to be some parts of the Internet that are not accessible to some users. Then they will complain to their ISP and something starts to 
happen. Then it gets in the mainstream press, at which point you may see a more rapid transition. Plenty of people will however say, why should I bother to get a new xxx box when I can reach all sites I care about.

Unless the govts get involved, of course.

-- Tim