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Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space


From: David Conrad <drc () virtualized org>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 11:49:27 -1000

On Apr 7, 2010, at 10:52 AM, William Pitcock wrote:
And when there are no eyeballs to look at your IPv4 content because your
average comcast user is on IPv6?

The chances of this actually occurring in our lifetime are so small as to be meaningless.  There are (according to 
published reports) between 1 and 2 billion people reachable on IPv4.  No rational commercial Internet organization is 
going to block themselves off from that customer base.  Folks like Comcast will probably add IPv6 support _in addition 
to_ IPv4.  Eventually, they may even add a surcharge to encourage people to migrate off IPv4, but I'd imagine that's 
way down the line.  By way of analogy, how long did pulse dialing continue to be supported in the phone system after 
DTMF was introduced?

Regards,
-drc

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