15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
1:18 a.m.
On 2008-12-15 17:23, Cameron Kerr wrote:
Industry agrees - IPv6 transition plan needed
Media Release - 15 December 2008
IPv6 supports a much larger pool of addresses, enough to assign an IP address to each grain of sand in a fine layer covering the entire planet.
Does anyone else get really fed up with this analogy?
Very, but it's much less hyped than the first draft. When I speak on this point, I try to limit myself to conveying that IPv6 has enough addresses and IPv4 doesn't. That's a necessary and sufficient argument, but of course doesn't carry the emotion that marketing people like.
From an operational point of view the key argument is "as many addresses as you need" instead of "the fewest you can get away with".
Brian