On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 04:00:16PM -0800, Owen DeLong wrote: > Ready or not, IPv6-only (or reasonably IPv6-only) residential > customers are less than 2 years out, so, well within > your 5-year planning horizon, whether those ISPs see that or > not. Denial is an impressive human phenomenon.
Denial is indeed impressive: v6 only is not the only option for residential customers already used to functioning behind NAT. I, for one, welcome our new CGN overlords... > In five years we should be just about ready to start deprecating IPv4, > if not already beginning to do so. Considering it's taken us 15 years to get this far... I think that's pretty optimistic. Anyone care to start the IPv4 dead pool, Price is Right style, for when the last v4 NLRI is removed from the DFZ? --msa