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Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
From: "Alexander Harrowell" <a.harrowell () gmail com>
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2007 16:00:36 +0100
On 6/28/07, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu <Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu> wrote:
On Thu, 28 Jun 2007 10:33:25 EDT, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ said: > I'm working on it ... But I think it will be really difficult to capture in > a couple of pages what the document try to explain ! The story goes: Richard Feynman, the late Nobel Laureate in physics, was once asked by a Caltech faculty member to explain why spin one-half particles obey Fermi Dirac statistics. Rising to the challenge, he said, "I'll prepare a freshman lecture on it." But a few days later he told the faculty member, "You know, I couldn't do it. I couldn't reduce it to the freshman level. That means we really don't understand it." And he was talking about quantum mechanics. Surely we understand IPv4 exhaustion and IPv6 transitioning well enough to get it down to a few pages?
1. IPv4 address space is a scarce resource and it will soon be exhausted. 2. It hasn't run out already due to various efficiency improvements. 3. These are themselves limited. 4. IPv6, though, will provide abundant address space. 5. But there's no incentive to change until enough others do so to make it worthwhile. 6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among small actors to achieve such leadership. OK?
Current thread:
- The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ (Jun 27)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Alexander Harrowell (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Jeff Shultz (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 chuck goolsbee (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Adrian Chadd (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 chuck goolsbee (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Dave Israel (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Stephen Sprunk (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Stephen Sprunk (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6 Iljitsch van Beijnum (Jun 28)
- Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion AND Transition to IPv6 Douglas Otis (Jun 28)