On Mar 31, 2010, at 8:52 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
Dan White wrote:
Are you willing to gamble your business on your expectations? Business models will develop that will take advantage of global addressing to end devices. The Next Big (Nth) Thing will. Do you feel that you have a perfect Crystal Ball, or do you want to start hedging your bets now?
^^ Doubt.
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.
Huh??? I missed that somewhere. The previous paragraph is: Falsehood Uncertainty Doubt Contrary evidence: whois -h whois.arin.net 2620:0:930::/48 -- ARIN Direct Assignment Multihomed Household Qualified under stricter policy than is now in effect. http://www.tunnelbroker.net (yes, I work there, but, you don't have to work there to get a /48 for free).
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".
http://www.delong.com Real world web site multi-homed, dual-stacked, and running just fine.
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...
Again, conclusions not in evidence. It's easy for anyone who wants it to get IPv6 and IPv6 connectivity. Sure, native IPv6 is a little harder to get, but, overall, I'm doing OK with tunnels of various forms and native will be coming along shortly in many many more places. Owen