[rpd] Report of the Soft Landing isuue

[Noah]

On 3 Apr 2017 12:55 a.m., "Owen DeLong" <owen at delong.com> wrote:


I am not calling for softening and depleting IPv4 at this stage, but I
don’t see any advantage to tightening it, either.


The last i checked, the IPv4 FIB is handling over 600k aggregate prefixes
vs IPv6 FIB that stands at close to only 40k aggregate prefixes a compeling
fact that the internet is still largely dependent on IPv4 today.

Very few IPv6 only green fields to say the least.



In fact, I would argue that by insisting on holding resources in the free
pool for “possible future newcomers” you are, in effect, assigning them to
organizations without any current proof of physical infrastructure in the
AfriNIC service region to the disadvantage of organizations that do
currently have proof of infrastructure and a documented need for the
addresses within the region today.


IMHO, your premise is flawed, in my experience (having worked for 3 SP
startups and still do),  because we were all startups at some point when we
involved ourselves in the business of connecting folk to the internet and
every iron that we fired up then and today needed and still needs at the
very least an IPv4 address to connect to the internet.

In anycase, IPv6 internet is still developing sponteneously at almost 40k
prefixes announced with a few case studies around the US, Europe, Asian and
some parts of Africa and South America and could take another decade as
long as telecoms  around the world still run CGN's.

IMHO market forces and tech-dynamics (IoT) will push for IPv6 adoption and
until then, the over a decade aggressive invetments in IPv4 internet will
still stand even though most equipment and software today pretty much
supports IPv6.

Noah
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