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Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-17 19:06:55
    >> Let's assume ... that a large part of the Internet is going to
    >> continue to be IPv4-only. ...

you've lost me.  where will growth occur?  two variables: "nat?" and
"stack?"  so, six possibilities:

        nat?    stack?
        ----    ------
        nat     v4
        nat     v6
        nat     v4+v6
        nonat   v4
        nonat   v6
        nonat   v4+v6

given the relative ease of acquiring v6 address space and the relative
ease of deploying v4+v6 end hosts and either v4+v6 campuses or v6 tunnels
in v4 campuses, there is no incentive to do nat/v4 any more, and precious
little incentive to do nonat/v4.  growth can be expected to occur only in
the other four tuples, with most falling in nonat/v4+v6 and nat/v4+v6.
not only growth of new hosts but metagrowth by upgrade of existing hosts.

therefore after a middle state of perhaps five more years, the majority
of services that anybody will want to access will be v4+v6 reachable, and
it will be realistic to consider provisioning first nat/v6 and then nonat/v6
endhosts.

very shortly thereafter, v4-only hosts will decline in value, both on the
server side and the client side (and both sides of peer-to-peer).

v4 will last as long as it's useful.
-- 
Paul Vixie

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