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. 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