Forgot an important detail, sorry... The rumors about business vs consumer aren't true to my knowledge, the push will be across the board, business and consumer.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 8:11 PM, Chad Bailey <[email protected]> wrote: > 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]
