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Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <[email protected]> > Hmm. I'm afraid that I have to disagree with just about everything you've > said :) . I haven't seen any enterprise folks demanding v6 - If VOIP and > PDA's (?) use up their IP addresses, they can easily ask for more. The more > you use, the more you get. There is no shortage of v4 space. Most enterprise folks use nowhere near their paltry allotment of IPv4 addresses because 95% or more of their hosts are on RFC1918 space. Even most companies with multiple class B legacy allocations use RFC1918 internally and are just holding the class B's so they can multihome effectively. > Basically, major backbone networks will deploy v6 when it makes economic > sense for them to do so. Right now, there is no demand and no revenue > upside. I don't expect this to change in the near future. Enterprise networks will not be the driver for ISPs to go to IPv6; NAT is too entrenched. Perhaps greater adoption of always-on broadband access will be the necessary push. S
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