Hello Toshi
Furthermore he pointed out that Paul (Wilson: APNIC DG) had commented IPv6 should be live for at least 50 years time, which has no inconsistency with your forecast.
Yes I believe that in the past I have said that IPv6 must surely last for at least 50 years. But that is a very rough approximation!
Personally I cannot understand anyone who would plan for or anticipate IPv6 exhaustion at any time in the foreseeable future. We have a huge problem already with planning and implementing a transition from IPv4 to IPv6, yet in relative terms, the IPv4 Internet is a miniscule network, compared to what the IPv6 Internet will become.
Any sufficiently advanced technology can be regarded as "magic", yet none of us really believe in magic. I suggest that until future (post-IPv6) transition scenarios become clear enough as to be practically achievable, we should plan for ongoing availability of IPv6 address space.
Paul.
<URL> http://www.apnic.net/docs/apster/issues/apster4-200208.pdf (page 8) If I summarize his view, that would be "Current situation is within the scope of original IPv6 distribution design because we will have IPv6 for 100-120 years. So what is the problem?". How do you respond? I appreciate your comments. thanks and best regards, Toshi -------- Original Message -------- From: Geoff Huston <gih at apnic dot net> To: sig-policy at lists dot apnic dot net Subject: [sig-policy] IPv6 Policy Proposal - prop-030-v001 Date: 2005/8/11 10:26Attached are text, pdf and word versions of a IPv6 policy proposal for consideration at APNIC-20 regards, Geoff Huston Stephan Millet<snip..> * sig-policy: APNIC SIG on resource management policy * _______________________________________________ sig-policy mailing list sig-policy at lists dot apnic dot net http://mailman.apnic.net/mailman/listinfo/sig-policy
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