Re: [v6ops] Operational Consensus on deployment

[Mark Andrews <[e-mail]>]

In message <[e-mail]>, "Fred Baker (fred)
" writes:
>
> The alternative is where Microsoft Azure finds itself now. They are out
> of IPv4 address space and do not have a publicly announced IPv6 service.
> To fill the gap, they are moving address space from Brazil to the US.
> Now, lest someone think I'm slamming them, I have little doubt that they
> have a long term plan; it's just not in evidence at the moment. But where
> they stand, if they don't have a plan, they're screwed. They are only the
> most public of a long list of companies with that problem...

Azure would still need the IPv4 addresses because the rest of the
world as a whole has not moved to IPv6 yet.  While datacenters may
be able to move to IPv6 only internally there is still a external
need for IPv4 addresses.  IPv6 only gives some IPv4 address saving
but not that much on the server side.  We are still a long way from
turning off IPv4 servers.

Mark
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