[6bone] RE: Content of 6bone digest, Vol 1 #446

[Gert Doering]

Hi,

On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 05:42:55PM -0500, Douglas Wade Needham wrote:
> money for Y2K and do not want to turn around right now to spend more
> on IPv6 to get things converted, and I think we may be 2010 or later
> before IPv4 goes away in the backbone.  Makes for an interesting
> conversation with my friends who are still working over at UUNET and
> AOL.

"Widely deploying IPv6" and "IPv4 going away in the backbone" are two
very distinct pairs of shoe :-)- I think Europe is really making big
progress towards the first, but nobdy has any realistic estimates for
a shutdown day for IPv4 (if it ever happens)...

Gert Doering
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