[ipv6-wg] Website Launch: www.IPv6ActNow.org

-----Original Message-----
From: ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net [mailto:ipv6-wg-admin at ripe.net] On Behalf Of
Jeroen Massar
Sent: woensdag 20 mei 2009 15:38
To: Joe Abley
Cc: ipv6-wg at ripe.net
Subject: Re: [ipv6-wg] Website Launch: www.IPv6ActNow.org

Joe Abley wrote:
[..]
> One question, though, directed at this list and not at the editors of 
> that web page. The text on the front door talks about IPv6 being the 
> successor to IPv4, and about it being time to move on.
> 
> To me, there's an implication here that we're talking about a 
> transition from IPv4 to IPv6, which (again, to me) implies that 
> there's a vision of
> IPv6 being the overwhelmingly dominant protocol on the Internet with
> IPv4 marginalised (e.g.) like DECNET and IPX in 2009.
> 
> Does anybody here expect this to happen in their lifetimes?

I hope that I survive it, there are a couple of young ones on this list ;)

> Or do people imagine that IPv4 is so entrenched that it will never 
> really go away, regardless of the growth in IPv6 deployment?

Most likely it will take at least another 20 years, but then IPv6 will be
'more' than IPv4 in terms of usage. Which is my very big guess ;)

I don't think that IPv4 will fully be 'gone' though, just like I still know
networks which use IPX and even at least one which uses DECNET (which you
will btw sometimes also find when doing wiresharks ;)

Greets,
 Jeroen

I don't think IPv4 will really go away. But is there an IPv6 range for
internal use only? We would need something like that or we will keep using
IPv4 for our internal network.

Regard,
Mark Scholten