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From: Kyle Moffett <kyle@moffetthome.net>
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 02:25:54 -0500

> I feel extremely nervous about people discussing disabling IPv6 going
> forward.  Current estimates are that the first RIRs will begin to
> exhaust their address spaces (after IANA's address space is exhausted)
> early in 2011.  If you consider that any change probably won't be in a
> released kernel until June or so, there would be all of 18 months left
> until IPv6 is *required* to contact some hosts on the internet.

Dear Chicken Little,

Please take this elsewhere, you're just distracting from the
discussion, and we don't have time for that.

The fact is that people want to disable ipv6, full stop, for one
reason or another.  And all of your talk about firewalling solutions
and "the sky is falling" ipv4 address depletion talk is just ignoreing
reality.