The question really at hand: what happens when you need to host a new=20=
pile of servers, need/can-justify a /24, and your hosting provider=20 quotes you $2560/month just for the IP space (at $10/IP)?
You probably laugh and go to some other provider or BYOA from a broker.
That works until all the hosting providers are charging similar rates, and even a decade ago I saw providers who would charge you for bringing your own space.
=20 That'd be an incentive to look seriously at IPv6.... I *think*.
I hope so, but most likely people will continue to do the lazy thing as = long as they can get away with it.
Switching hosting providers will probably become a popular game for=20 the early depletion era, as providers attempt to rob each other of customers. That's probably a losing game in the long run.
Let=E2=80=99s hope (that it=E2=80=99s a losing game).
Just because something is a losing game doesn't mean people won't play that game. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.