ETA for IPV6 to AT&T dsl is before 2012 (4th quarter 2011). They are notorious for pushing back release dates and have a lot in progress right now, so we will see.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 7:54 PM, William L. Thomson Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > Just to get people thinking before our upcoming presentation on IPv6. > Which is a repeat presentation from a year or so back. But this year its > becoming more and more relevant and important, consider all IPv4 address > blocks have been exhausted[1]. > > For most people this does not mean much. But for businesses that > purchase IP blocks, it could be of importance. Not sure if we will see > more strict allocation and usage of IPv4 blocks from the block owners. > Or if we will start to see IPv4 address block squatting and reselling. > > While IPv6 is still in infancy with regard to world wide > deployment/usage. I wonder how long IPv4 will be around and in use. Even > once most of the world has switched to IPv6. Very likely have to deal > with both for the foreseeable future. Which is some what a headache in > of itself. > > Not really sure about the feasibility of running a pure IPv6 only > network, with no support for IPv4. If that is possible, which I don't > think it is at this time, but surely could be wrong there. Of course I > am speaking internal networks, LANs and private WANs. Most interaction > with the outside world would still require usage of IPv4, unless IPv6 is > available. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPv6#Exhaustion_of_IPv4_addresses > > P.S. > Interesting that the ceremony was held in Miami of all places. > > -- > William L. Thomson Jr. > Obsidian-Studios, Inc. > http://www.obsidian-studios.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 > RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml > Unsubscribe [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive http://marc.info/?l=jaxlug-list&r=1&w=2 RSS Feed http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.xml Unsubscribe [email protected]
