Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

[Stephen Wilcox <steve.wilcox () packetrade com>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:34:01PM +0100, michael.dillon () bt com wrote:
> > However, what I'm trying to understand is why the motivation 
> > to rapidly go from v4 to v6 only? What are the factors I'm 
> > missing in operating v4/v6 combined for some time?
>
> Growth.
>
> Lack of IPv4 addresses will put the brakes on growth of the Internet
> which will have a major impact on revenue growth. Before long stock
> market analysts are going to be asking tough questions, and CEOs are
> suddenly going to see the IPv6 light.

What exactly will cease to grow tho? The 4 billion IPs that have always been around will continue to be. I think you 
overestimate the effects.. 

All the existing big businesses can operate with what they already have, Google and Yahoo are not going to face any 
sort of crisis for the foreseeable future. And as I've been saying for a while and Randy put in his presentation, 
supply and demand will simply cause the cost of having public IPs to go up from zero to something tiny - enough to see 
IPs being put back into the pool to those who really need them.

Steve