[address-policy-wg] 2015-03 New Policy Proposal (Assessment Criteria for IPv6 Initial Allocation Size)

On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 4:07 PM, Jan Ingvoldstad <frettled at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 3:40 PM, Tim Chown <tjc at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:
<snip>
>>
>> And I would put a bet on IPv6 not being the mainstream global /
>> interplanetary communication protocol in hundreds of years, but I won’t be
>> around to collect, so….
>
>
> Perhaps it won't, but if it won't, then the IPv6 design has failed. IPv4
> already has been around for 34 years or so (IIRC, we got it in 1981), and
> will be something we have to work with for a couple of decades or more,
> depending on whether IPv6 actually can replace IPv6 use that quickly. So
> let's say, for simplicity's sake, that IPv4's lifetime turns out to be 50-60
> years.
>
> If IPv6 shouldn't be the mainstream communication protocol for the timeframe
> I mentioned, someone had best get started on IPv7.

Are work being done in several forums on interplanetary communication,
both with thoughts on delay and on address space. AFAIK some of it is
already in production to using IPv6... wish my memory worked today so
I could remember where I saw that discussion :-(



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