[governance] IPv4, R.I.P.: Europe hits old internet address limits

[Lee W McKnight]

My initial guesstimate that 'things' will tip the balance is extrapolating from the thing in most of your pockets, or on which you are currently reading this message, which already comes with IPv6 inside.  And has for several years.

IPv6 has just not been turned on and used yet by (most) mobile carriers.

Still yeah there is a wide array of things, and for some the overhead of IPv6 is too much. And lots of other tags exist which do not presume a specific form of - IP - to identify a thing.

So yes, it may well be too soon to say which way the Internet of Things will - vote? Though I am still predicting the 20 billion things on the net by 2020, per Cisco, will outvote us humans in making the call.  (I haven't seen any polling numbers on the things preferences just yet, to back that hunch up just yet, I admit. ; : )

Lee
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Subject: Re: [governance] IPv4, R.I.P.: Europe hits old internet address limits



On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 7:30 AM, Avri Doria <avri at ella.com<mailto:avri at ella.com>> wrote:

On 17 Sep 2012, at 08:42, Lee W McKnight wrote:

> Therefore, my forecast is for a heterogeneous messy mish-mash of IPv4 and IPv6 networks interconnected at lots of dual-stack points; with legacy IPv4 and NATs living on for quite some time.
>
> Until...that tipping point.


Hopefully by that tipping point there will be a better solution that integrates v4 and v6 and fixes the routing.

Also are we sure the v6 will be the address of choice for IoT?  I understand that is not yet a given.

That is indeed an interesting question about whether v6 will be an address of choice for the Internet of Things. I was wondering whether the same can be said for gTLDs  and their future in light of dotless domains.


avri


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