On Wednesday, Feb 12, 2003, at 21:00 Canada/Eastern, Frank March wrote:
-----Original Message----- From: Crick, Gabrielle [mailto:Gabrielle.Crick(a)dcita.gov.au] Sent: Thursday, 13 February 2003 12:40 To: 'apectel-poc(a)lists.dcita.gov.au' Subject: APEC TEL IPv6 Workshop
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The workshop will cover:
Issues surrounding the current standard of Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) and how it limits the number of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses available globally. This lack of potential access will threaten all other efforts to bridge the digital divide.
Someone should tell these people that we are not running out of IPv4 addresses any time soon, and that the real pressing issue is how you make the routing system scale (an issue which IPv6 does not attempt to address).
The need for policy makers, regulators, and decision makers in APEC economics to be familiar with issues in moving from IPv4 to IPv6 including transition, operation, financial impact, applications, security, and quality of service issues.
Now *that* would be an interesting argument to hear, unless their point is that there is no need whatsoever for policy makers and regulators to even know what IPv6 is. Joe