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There are times when I wonder if we will ever actually switch over to IPv6. The rate of adoption is super slow and yet at some point surely we'll hit some sort
by zaphar 16y ago
There are times when I wonder if we will ever actually switch over to IPv6. The rate of adoption is super slow and yet at some point surely we'll hit some sort of critical mass right?
- SystemOut 16y agoHurricane Electric has a nice little widget that shows how many IPv4 addresses are left for allocation. The site is http://ipv6.he.net/ http://ipv6.he.net/ I was reading somewhere that there are still a pretty decent number of allocated but unused addresses available out there that will still need to be used but that can't go on forever. It's hard to say what will actually happen when we do start to run short, though. I doubt it will have any noticeable impact on the average consumer, though.
- bigfudge 16y agoI find these examples of scarcity and cost really interesting and wonder if economists do too... IP4 is like a miniature version of the energy crisis — at some point the cost of not switching _to someone_ become greater than those of switching. I'd be interested to know how it works in this situation? Who will be, in actuality, faced with the headache of not enough addresses, and will they be sufficiently powerful to motivate others who don't directly experience the pain to transition?