ARIN CEO: IPv6 is coming, regardless of looming routing crisis
14 May 2009
The Internet as it exists today may come to an end in 15 to 20 years because of flawed routing architecture; but, in the meantime, plenty of work must be done to keep what is already deployed from splintering.
That was the general agreement (with some vocal dissenters) at FutureNet’s annual “Beer and Pizza” shootout, as a distinguished panel of Internet architects and thinkers debated the urgency of — and the possible solutions to — two fundamental problems: IP address depletion and the scalability of the Internet’s routing capabilities. Many attendees disagreed about whether the problems should be dealt with together or separately.
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