[afnog] IPv6 - some interesting reading

[Phil Regnauld]

I thought people here might find this interesting:

An Informational draft RFC was recently published, outlining
an IPv4 to IPv6 transition plan, with goals of being "ready"
by 2011-01-01:

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-jcurran-v6transitionplan-00.txt

Compare this to a very informative presentation from Randy Bush regarding
the reality of such a transition (and, in some cases, why it's plain
impossible, since IPv6 is not "backwards compatible" with IPv4):

http://www.iepg.org/2007-07-ietf69/070722.v6-op-reality.pdf

(the part regarding the emergence of a market for IPv4 addresses, and
the transition from allocation to entitlement is worth it by itself).

Some background data and interesting comments from Geoff Huston, who
maintains a page which is updated daily with an estimate of when
IANA and RIRs will run out of unallocated IPv4 space (and the trading
will begin):

http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html

http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2007-07/v4end.html
http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2007-08/dualstack.html