<br><br>On Wednesday, February 11, 2015, Anfinsen, Ragnar <<a href="mailto:Ragnar.Anfinsen@altibox.no">Ragnar.Anfinsen@altibox.no</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi guys.<br>
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I am working with my management team to implement IPv6, but I got an<br>
interesting question from one of the managers; Why do we need more IPv4 if<br>
we are moving towards IPv6?<br>
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A quick background; We are having discussions around IPv4 and IPv6 and the<br>
need to eventually buy more IPv4 addresses to keep a premium level on our<br>
Internet access.<br>
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My argument is that we need addresses as long as there are important<br>
services that only do IPv4 (yes, there are still a few, especially in<br>
Norway), and as long as the other ISP are reluctant to implement IPv6<br>
(luckily in Norway, all the major ISPs have already come a long way). When<br>
IPv6 reaches critical mass is the $5000 dollar question which I wish I had<br>
the answer for.<br>
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So, any thoughts on this topic, and any qualified guesses on when we no<br>
longer need to do IPv4 and still be able to call our internet product<br>
premium?<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I always cringe when folks say premium internet. Internet is always "best effort", we are all always reduced to the least common denominator for network quality. </div><div><br></div><div>I would say networks that only have ipv4 are not doing their best effort. There will not be suitable truly ipv6-only offering in the next 10 Years because of these laggards. </div><div><br></div><div>That said, buying ipv4 makes me feel ill. Please put ipv4 where it belong in the cgn / nat64 / MAP br / aftr. </div><div><br></div><div>Ipv4 is not premium, it is legacy services deployed by companies on a downward slide. . My customers care about fb and google and netflix, those are top services and all on ipv6</div><div><br></div><div>CB</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
/Ragnar<br>
Altibox AS<br>
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