So why is "IPv4 with longer addresses" a problem anyway?

[Alan Batie]

On 5/26/10 10:53 AM, Gert Doering wrote:

> Money saved in "no longer working around the limitations of IPv4".
> 
> this is causing hidden
> costs that people won't notice until they take a close look at IPv6 and
> find out "oh, there is no need to haggle about subnet sizes anymore, wow!".

Amen to that --- working with IPv6 is like taking off a straight-jacket
in a closet and moving into a mansion.  There may still be some
construction going on in one or another wing, but it's still a vast
improvement.