We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing

Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by pyre on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @03:13AM (#6132313)

I'm mostly thinking about end-user applications that may just never get updated, though I can't come up with any off the top of my head.

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by nknighthb on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @04:13AM (#6132442)

Dual-stack, proxies, and (if absolutely necessary) actual tunnels can compensate for critical IPv4 apps. You can layer whatever you need to on top of IPv6.

Non-critical applications where people aren't willing to jump through any hoops... Well, it's not exactly news that sometimes old apps get left behind in technology transitions.

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by sp332 on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @06:39AM (#6132803)

Dual-stack still requires an IPv4 address.

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Re:We're about to hit phase 3 of ARIN IPV4 rationing by nknighthb on Wednesday July 31, 2013 @06:44AM (#6132820)

Of course it does, but not necessarily a publicly-routable one. Dual-stack is necessary because otherwise the IPv4 application literally won't run at all. How the packets actually traverse the public internet is a different matter addressed by things like NAT, proxies, or tunnels.

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