On Feb 28, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: > > On Mar 1, 2011, at 7:00 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> In five years we should be just about ready to start deprecating IPv4, if >> not already beginning to do so. > > > That's been said about so many things, from various legacy OSes to other > protocols such as SNA and SMB/CIFS. > > None of those things are as prevalent as IPv4 is today. And yet, they're > still around to haunt us. > I said beginning to turn it off, not done with it.
> I think we're going to be dealing with IPv4 for a long, long time - far > longer than two years. > Oh, I agree. However, I think in 5 years we'll start seeing a few residential providers announcing things like IPv4 is now a $20/month optional service. Owen