Subj : Devil's Advocate
To   : Michiel van der Vlist
From : David Drummond
Date : Tue Nov 25 2014 18:34:04

On 25/11/2014 6:45 AM, Michiel van der Vlist -> David Drummond wrote:

 MvdV>>> The world of bits and bytes is bigger than the world of
 MvdV>>> Fidonet. Your other activities on the internet can benefit from
 MvdV>>> IPv6 as well.

 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.

 MvdV> That way they will indeed increase their pool of numbers, but they will
 MvdV> also have more customers to share them with, so it will be no solution
 MvdV> for the shortage of numbers.

Well it isn't an issue yet - I always seem to have a working IP number every time I try to "travel" the 'net.

My ISP obviously isn't worried either with no talk of converting.

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Regards
David

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