Re: [v4tov6transition] draft-arkko-ipv6-transition-guidelines WGLC

[Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010, Gert Doering wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 11:12:58AM +0800, Tina TSOU wrote:
> [..]
> > No one has the right to request these applications must support NAT64
> > traversal,
> [..]
> > NAT64. Since these applications are existing applications, no one has right
> > to requesting stop using these applications.
> [..]
> > 4) No one has the right to force all the UE to support IPV6, therefore from
> > the technology evolution point of view, we don't have to consider IPV4 only
> [..]
>
> I'm wondering which parallel universe this is going to happen.
>
> In my universe, IPv4 is going to run out, and if there is no more IPv4,
> these applications will either get fixed, or die.  Very straightforward.

In the same universe where there will be IPv4 public addresses and 
NAT44 still in 20 years, I suppose?  I guess it's in the eye of the 
beholder how difficult you expect it to be to be able to get IPv4 
addresses and/or kludge your way around them to make v4 applications 
or hosts work even long after the IANA IPv4 runout.

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