Subj : Devil's Advocate
To   : Markus Reschke
From : David Drummond
Date : Tue Nov 25 2014 18:30:39

On 25/11/2014 6:11 AM, Markus Reschke -> David Drummond wrote:

 DD>> Which is where this thread started - what is that benefit?

 DD>> Someone said that my ISP will run out of numbers - at the moment they
 DD>> seem to just swallow up smaller ISPs and inherit their subnets.

 MR> It doesn't matter if you or your ISP got sufficient IPv4 address space,
 MR> because someone else might not. If some fancy new service, like a new
 MR> amazon or what have you, only got IPv6 addresses, you won't be able to
 MR> use it with an IPv4-only internet access. Of course you can use some
 MR> IPv6 tunnel service, but that's just a transition technology which will
 MR> vanish some day. Anybody using the internet is forced to run native IPv6
 MR> sooner or later.

But not yet.

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Regards
David

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