On 29-Nov-2006, at 13:46, Robert Gray wrote:
Philip D'Ath wrote:
It's solving the looming problem of the IPv4 address pool being exhausted in the next 3 to 6 years.
Is not complete lack of Internet connectivity for new customers not a good enough reason?
Sadly v6 is at best only a partial solution. If v6 really allowed a customer to do all the things that a v4 address does then there would be no shortage of money and people deploying it.
v6 really doesn't stop anybody doing anything they can do with v4. As one of Wood's recent batch of t-shirts says, "96 more bits. no magic." The main operational differences derive from policy, not protocols. While the IETF and the RIRs might suggest particular rules for deaggregation, summarisation, filtering, etc at the end of the day it's the network operators who get to decide how they run their own networks. (and it's not like people don't get plenty of chances to influence the work of the IETF and the RIRs, anyway) Joe