On 03/31/2010 08:52 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
We have just (anecdotally, empirically) established earlier in this thread, that anything smaller than a mid-sized business, can't even *GET* IPv6 easily (at least in the USA); much less care about it.
fwiw, that last time I was at a company that needed a prefix, we wrote up an addressing plan, applied, received an assignment, payed our money and were done. if a pool of public addresses are a resource you need to run your business you can secure it, and it's simpler and dealing with for example health insurance.
Talking about a "crystal ball", in my view, is just a lot of hand-waving that means "I don't have a real-world example to point to".
Talking about "the Next Big Thing" means that somehow, the NBT will be present without any residential or small business broadband users partaking in it. Sounds like a pretty small piece of the pie for the NBT...
For the record, I have no dog in this fight; I just think that the rhetoric / fanboi-ism / advocacy level is just a little too high - emotion rather than reason is taking over in the course of debate, which for me at least, is unwelcome.
Cordially
Patrick