Re: Rate of growth on IPv6 not fast enough?

[Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick () zill net>]

Franck Martin wrote:
> Sure the internet will not die...
>
> But by the time we run out of IPv4 to allocate, the IPv6 network will not have completed to dual stack the current 
> IPv4 network. So what will happen?

Reality is that as soon as SSL web servers and SSL-capable web browsers
have support for name-based virtual hosts, the number of IPv4 addresses
required will drop.  Right now, you need 1 IP address for 1 SSL site;
SNI spec of SSL gets rid of that.

--Patrick