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

[Carlos Friacas]

On Tue, 1 Apr 2008, Patrick J Greene 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?

We are doing it. Some years ago our decision makers decided we wouldn't be 
a loose screw in the global transition to IPv6.

The organization i work for manages the country's ccTLD, the Academic 
Network and the local Internet Exchange Point among other activities.


> Is anybody really running out of IP 
>space, other that ARIN?

The world is. The IPv4 address distribution flow/chain is:
IANA/ICANN -> RIRs (ARIN/APNIC/RIPE/LACNIC/AFRINIC) -> ISPs

In some parts of the world (namely Asia-Pacific) ISPs are the fourth 
layer, and not the third because the third is the NIR (National Internet 
Registry).


> Need we need to be looking at getting IPv6 
>Internet connections and hosting on IPv6 now?

Need is perhaps a strong word. But if you can, that would be nice, yes.
Have you noticed the root zone has some new records? and some of the DNS 
root servers themselves now hold IPv6 addresses? ;-)


>  What about non ISP's? 
>Does corporate America really need to worry?

Only if reach the point where they need more public IPv4 addresses and 
they can't get them from ISPs..... or from anywhere......


> Thanks,
> Patrick
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Best Regards,

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