# Diving into the NTP pool (paper)
**URL:** https://community.ntppool.org/t/diving-into-the-ntp-pool-paper/2307
**Category:** Pool Development
**Created:** [February 28, 2022, 3:59pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/diving-into-the-ntp-pool-paper/2307 "2022-02-28T15:59:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@marco.davids](https://community.ntppool.org/u/marco.davids)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 12:31pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/diving-into-the-ntp-pool-paper/2307/21 "2022-03-08T12:31:17Z")
> [@NTPman](#):
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> We should put in place some plan for the phase-out of IPv4, at least in the context of NTPpool.
The NTP pool is pre-eminently a service that should support both protocols for a long time to come. So let’s focus on adding those AAAA-records while keeping the A’s.
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### Author:  [@NTPman](https://community.ntppool.org/u/NTPman)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 12:39pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/diving-into-the-ntp-pool-paper/2307/22 "2022-03-08T12:39:07Z")
> [@HAHAHAHA](#):
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> The Pool is not powerful enough to push the change and this is not The Pool’s work.
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> It’s really up to tech giants e.g. Microsoft and Google to propel the change.
I think we may debate on that but it is not important here. (I think everybody’s work, big tech’s, ISP’s, infrastructure providers [root&tld DNS, NTPpool], and so on.)
The main point is, that the IPv6 was invented _in replacement of_ and not _in addition to_ the IPv4 protocol. The start point is IPv4 only Internet (one side of the hill), the end point (goal: the other side of the hill) is the IPv6 only Internet. Everybody must be clear with the objective, see clearly the goal and move towards it, as it is possible.
> [@marco.davids](#):
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> The NTP pool is pre-eminently a service that should support both protocols for a long time to come. So let’s focus on adding those AAAA-records while keeping the A’s.
Good enough starting point. As I mentioned, I was exaggerating.
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### Author:  [@Bas](https://community.ntppool.org/u/Bas)
#### Post date: [March 8, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://community.ntppool.org/t/diving-into-the-ntp-pool-paper/2307/23 "2022-03-08T18:26:24Z")
> [@grifferz](#):
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> If there’s anything I have learned over the years here, it’s that it’s totally pointless “debating” Bas on the subject of IPv6. He has a relentless need to post nonsense about it even in threads like this one which had nothing whatsoever to do with IPv6 before he brought it up. I think his father was killed by a 128-bit integer, and he has never gotten over it.
Funny from somebody that never posts.
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