Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any errors.
On Apr 18, 2010, at 21:28, Patrick Giagnocavo <patr...@zill.net> wrote:
Franck Martin wrote:
Sure the internet will not die...
But by the time we run out of IPv4 to allocate, the IPv6 network
will not have completed to dual stack the current IPv4 network. So
what will happen?
Reality is that as soon as SSL web servers and SSL-capable web
browsers
have support for name-based virtual hosts, the number of IPv4
addresses
required will drop. Right now, you need 1 IP address for 1 SSL site;
SNI spec of SSL gets rid of that.
Agreed.
When do you expect Windows XP & earlier versions to be a small enough
segment of the userbase that businesses will consider DoS'ing those
customers? My guess is when the cost of additional v4 addresses is
higher than the profit generated by those customers.
Put another way: Not until it is too late.
And we still have the "way less than 4 billion possible addresses, but
way more than 4 billion hosts" problem.
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TTFN,
patrick
