Re: An Internet IPv6 Transition Plan

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

On Wed, Jul 25, 2007, Stephen Wilcox wrote:

> > 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.

I'm not sure what your definition of "really tiny" is, but out here
IPs are a dollar or two each a year from APNIC. I'm sure ARIN's IP
charges aren't $0.00.



Adrian