[c-nsp] OT : IPv6 - Will it hit like an "avalanch"?

[Whisper]

Its quite possibly the the Y2K that we had to have. :)

Maybe the US DoD and the US government in general will hand back all their
IPv4 address blocks when they supposedly cut over to IPv6, who knows?

Jeff Doyle has being going on about it for ages on his Network World
CiscoSubnet blog http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=doyle

Geoff Huston also talks a lot about IPv4 address exhaustion on his site:
http://www.potaroo.net/

The interesting thing in the client space, other than your Cisco ISR's I
don't think there are any retail modems that do IPv6. Yay Cisco.

A good summary of issues can be found in this document
http://rip.psg.com/%7Erandy/070722.v6-op-reality.pdf

Got to love Microsoft, XP has a Windows IPv6 stack that doesn't do native
IPv6 DNS lookups.

So I'm pretty pessimistic at the moment

Let the fun begin.

On Wed, Apr 2, 2008 at 12:27 AM, Patrick J Greene <patrickg at layer8llc.com>
wrote:

> I keep seeing all of these articles about IPv6 being put off until the
> last minute and then we will all have to scramble to put it in(
> http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/033108-ntt-anerica-ipv6.html) .
>  What are your thoughts and plans?  Is anybody really running out of IP
> space, other that ARIN?  Need we need to be looking at getting IPv6 Internet
> connections and hosting on IPv6 now?  What about non ISP's?  Does corporate
> America really need to worry?
>
> Thanks,
> Patrick
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