Hi, On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 01:47:03PM +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
There has been little or no reason to adopt v6 so far, other than as an alternate means of connectivity to reach what, geek operated mail, ftp and rsync servers for Linux distros and assorted open source software?
Uh. I'd say "providing IP connectivity to end users, without having to go through a carrier-grade nat at their provider" seems to be compelling enough that quite a number of large-scale providers in europe have started to assign a /56 to all new customers...
With some majors like Google starting to adopt it, and with only a few years left for a v4 aftermarket, carrier grade nat etc to have any effect, and with newer generations of devices yet to ship with v6 only stacks but that's a matter of time... That is when you will start to see the true uptake and growth of v6. I rather suspect what i predict may well happen in our lifetimes, or even in the couple of decades of years before I retire
"True uptake and growth" will happen in terms of traffic ratio, actual usage ratio *inside* the IPv6 prefixes, but not so much in terms of "how many entities are all of a sudden becoming a RIR member to get IPv6 address space". There's currently about 10.000 RIPE members - which is well inside the bounds that can be served by RIPE's /12. Why should entities that are not RIPE members today become one, just because of IPv6 uptake? And, more interesting, why would the number go up by a factor of 50, to actually threaten to fill the /12? Gert Doering -- NetMaster -- have you enabled IPv6 on something today...? SpaceNet AG Vorstand: Sebastian v. Bomhard Joseph-Dollinger-Bogen 14 Aufsichtsratsvors.: A. Grundner-Culemann D-80807 Muenchen HRB: 136055 (AG Muenchen) Tel: +49 (89) 32356-444 USt-IdNr.: DE813185279