On 3/6/06 6:14 PM, "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <dgolding@burtongroup.com>
On 3/6/06 10:25 AM, "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org> wrote:
So, unless there's policy change, most end-user orgs will have no choice but to pay the market rate for IPv4 addresses. Spot markets are good when demand is elastic, but we're faced with a market that has growing inelastic demand that will outstrip fixed supply in a decade. Capitalism doesn't handle that well.
There will be a average cost per host to transition from v4 to v6. When the cost of IPv4 addresses exceeds the transition cost, then you have the one thing missing from IPv6 discussions: an ROI.
Please quantify the cost of not being able to multihome your mission-critical business. Compare to the cost of obtaining an IPv4 PI block. Both are likely to exceed the possible revenue for small businesses at some point not too far off.
This is of course, making the assumption (which may be in error) at PI IPv6 space will happen, through 2005-1 or some other policy. Absent PI IPv6 space, IPv6 simply wont happen, shim6 or not. -- Daniel Golding