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Re: IPv6 allocation plan, security, and 6-to-4 conversion


From: Owen DeLong <owen () delong com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:49:45 -0800


On Jan 30, 2015, at 18:07 , William Herrin <bill () herrin us> wrote:

On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 8:44 PM, Owen DeLong <owen () delong com> wrote:
I guess it depends on your definition of ubiquitous, but to me, when a protocol
has the majority of the deployed addresses, I think it counts for this purpose.

LOL, Owen, IPv6 had that with the first /64 ethernet LAN it was used on.

If you want to nit-pick, by “deployed addresses”, I mean addresses actually deployed on hosts and being used for 
cummunications.

This was a really stupid nit, even for you.

How about this: when Verizon starts decommissioning its IPv4
infrastructure on the basis that IPv6 is widespread enough to no
longer require the expense of dual-stack, IPv6 will have achieved
ubiquity.

Um, no. The judgment of one traditional telephone company is hardly where I would look to contemplate the future of the 
internet.

Heck, to a large degree, Verizon hasn’t even figured out how to do IPv6 for FIOS customers yet, let alone their DSL 
subscribers.

Really not the shining example I would turn to. No. Certainly not the worst, but definitely not the leader, either.

Owen


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