On Thu, 7 Feb 2019, Martin Hun?k wrote:
Or go to "the IPv4 market".
Also a possibility, but it would cost additional money.
Sure, but that's life. And it doesn't mean IPv4 is being abandoned. :/
IPv4 is NOT "walking dead". It's the Internet's dominant protocol version, whether we like it or not!
How many orgs have gone public about plans to completely drop IPv4?
IPv4 has a serious limitation about "future growth", which IPv6 doesn't have. But people are making (a lot of?) money pushing IPv4 numbers from hand to hand, so it is hard for me (at this point, from a research & education network background!) to see how IPv4 will stop being the dominant version...
Yes it is still dominant, no dispute here. But as well we (theoretically) buried it long time ago. That's why the "walking dead" thing. Point is that with up to /32 in routing tables we would be investing RAM on IPv4 instead of for IPv6 deployment (if not done already).
Maybe. But that will be each ORG's choice, -if- prefixes longer than /24 start to get accepted.
And yes, there is quite a lot of money in IPv4. In hypothetical IPv6-only world, IP brokers would starve to death. :-)
Businesses are born, they get mature and eventually they stop making sense. It's a normal lifecycle... Regards, Carlos
Regards, Martin