On 26 May 2020, at 12:14, Nick Hilliard wrote:
ipv4 will fade when it becomes more expensive and troublesome than
ipv6. If we attempt to short-cut this process and kill ipv4 with
policy and artificial deadlines, it will will fail just like it failed
with the ISO / OSI debacle all those years ago.
Indeed.
Certainly there are operators who have a great deal of expertise in
keeping legacy products alive long after others have moved on. It could
be that BT is the last remaining place you can get IPv4 internet from,
at some distant point in the future. There will be a fault and they’ll
have to pull Neil out of retirement to fix it. :-)
