[afnog] IPv6 - some interesting reading

[Adiel A. Akplogan]

Thanks Phil,

Here is another paper on the IPv4 exhaustion topic published
by AfriNIC in April:

http://www.afrinic.net/news/ipv4_exhaustion.htm

and AfrINIC's official position on IPv6 in regard to exhaustion
situation:

http://www.afrinic.net/news/position-of-the-future-of-IP.htm

Finally a policy proposal to try to deal with the remaining
IPv4 pool was posted on AfriNIC RPD list for discussion. See:

http://www.afrinic.net/docs/policies/afpol-v4gp200707.htm

- a.
>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
>
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