Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

[Fred Baker <fred () cisco com>]

On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Heinrich Strauss wrote:

> So once the "early" adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is no business need to maintain the IPv4 
> allocation and that will be returned to the free pool, since Business would see it as an unnecessary cost.

Interesting reasoning. I would think that until we have pretty wide IPv4 implementation, the business need to keep the 
allocation is to talk with the people who have not yet implemented it. From a Reductio ad Absurdum perspective, imagine 
that facebook or youtube, now that they have implemented IPv6, felt obliged to give up their IPv4 allocation 
immediately? It would mean that they were out of business, which I should think might be an excellent business reason 
to not deploy IPv6.