Putting a sunset clause will happen but when it won't matter much. We are not there yet.
However, I could see it also coming from a vendor as a way to get customers to upgrade (after that date we will not support IPv4 anymore and provide patches for IPv4). ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Dillon" <wavetos...@googlemail.com> To: "NANOG" <nanog@nanog.org> Sent: Friday, 22 October, 2010 9:24:57 AM Subject: Re: IPv4 sunset date set for 2019-12-31 >> How would you respond if that were announced? > >> If I were king for a day, > > But you aren't. No one is. > > The core requirement for such announcements is that there be a real > enforcement arm. Not necessarily. If you announce that YOU will treat that date as a sunset date for IPv4 and invite other organizations to sign up for the declaration, you might be able to get a movement going. Alice's Restaurant comes to mind as does the Cluetrain Manifesto. > The best that can be done with respect to declaring a IPv4 sunset date is > localized pockets of such control. > > One could, of course, imagine a federation of such pockets... That is too top down, and sounds too much like the ITU, a federation of governments. I don't think that would work but a voluntary manifesto that people could sign up to would work. --Michael Dillon
