On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Steve Phillips wrote:
Philip D'Ath wrote:
I've asked pretty much every single provider there is, and no one would sell it to me.
no one will sell it to you ? or no one will sell it to you at a price that meets your expectations ?
Deja vu! Before this argument goes around AGAIN please refer to the thread in this very list during Nov 2006 http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2006-November/thread.html or http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2006-November/date.html#12178 Discussion was started by Philip himself on Nov 28th with this message: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2006-November/012178.html His reply to the question above can probably be found here: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2006-November/012242.html and was further discussed/examined So we appear to be at a point where we think that a. IPv4 is exhausted, and b. Some say there are ways to solve the problem without going to IPv6, while, c. Others advocate IPv6 is the only way to solve the problem. Just out of curiousity... Has anyone advocated IPv6 for its own sake, perhaps as a new and exciting technology development, rather than as technology that has been developed to resolve the problem of running out of IPv4 address space? regards lin