[josm-dev] IPv6 problems

[Dirk Stöcker]

On Sat, 2 Jan 2016, Florian Lohoff wrote:

>> If you go into the future you will have IPv6 only. No IPv4 fallback.
>> And it has to work. Yes - we currently have a chance to try again
>> with IPv4 and JOSM doesn't use that chance. Well, JOSM doesn't do
>> many other things as well.
>
> IPv4 will not go away. It will stay with us for at least 30 years.
> Remember that there are billions of devices deployed world wide
> which dont have the flash codespace to support ipv6.

Somewhen in the near future you either will have an address translation 
between IPv4 and IPv6 or you wont be able to access many newer servers and 
services from your IPv4 devices. Dual stack is a lot of additional work 
and as soon as the percentage of IPv6 adoption goes over a certain level 
you will get more and more IPv6 only services.

In 10 years timeframe nobody cares about most of todays devices. A lot of 
them will be thrown away in 3 years already. They simply don't count.

The question is not whether IPv4 will remain or not, but if an IPv4 only 
network access will be able to reach a majority of targets. And I doubt 
that will be the case in 10 years looking at the IPv6 adoption rates 
in the last years. I'm personally already deploying IPv6 only services 
today.

Ciao
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