On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 at 09:49:01 +1300, David Zanetti wrote:
So market forces will take care of it. So long as IPv4 is cheaper to deploy and maintain than transition costs to IPv6, there is no way any sensible business is going to shift to it.
Are all registries going to slowly and artifially jack up the price as we approach depletion of IPv4 addresses? If it's going to be business as usual right up until they run out, then market forces won't handle it. Markets generally cope very badly with sudden elimination of supply. Even if address space does start to rise in price, a certain amount of altruism will be required of the haves to implement some form of IPv6 so that the have-nots can continue to grow with out becoming second class internet citizens.
This seems to be a bit of a storm in a teacup. By all means, people should play with it. But demanding a transition when it makes no economic sense to do so right now is just bad business.
The concern is it won't make any economic sense until it's possibly too late for a smooth transition. Nigel