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Re: [v6ops] Operational Consensus on deployment

Gert Doering <gert@space.net> Tue, 05 August 2014 06:03 UTC

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From: Gert Doering <gert@space.net>
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Hi,

On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 08:26:20AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> (In parenthesis, I've never seen sunsetting IPv4 as a real problem.
> One day somebody will notice that there are no more IPv4 packets. But
> that is many years in the future.)

Well, at some point you have to decide to no longer provision IPv4 on
new services, turn off IPv4 on existing services, stop the dual
monitoring needed for IPv4+IPv6 infrastructure, etc. - so "IPv4 just 
stops being there" isn't going to cut it for operators :-)

Gert Doering
        -- NetMaster
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have you enabled IPv6 on something today...?

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