IANA handed out the last of the IPv4 licenses earlier this week, as we reported. The analyst firm ZapThink compares the impending depletion of IPv4 addresses to Y2K. Y2K ultimately led to little more than a boom in ERP and colloidal silver sales, but as ZapThink points out there was a fundamental difference: “We’re not nearly as worked up about IPv4 exhaustion as we were about Y2K ahead of the fact.”
Read the entire article at http://www.readwriteweb.com/cloud/2011/02/is-world-ipv6-day-the-new-y2k.php.
There is a fundamental difference between Y2k and IPV6: If you are in an Intranet or VPN, you can live with IPV4 for another 20 years
, while rotten software did not work for another moment, after 1.January 2000. Time is global, IP can be local. Btw, remember, 32 bit Linux will last in 2032, so after IPV6 day, we will have the LINUX64 day.