smd@clock.org wrote:
| The bottom-line appears that everyone is waiting for everyone else to | twitch first, then the shoot-out starts. However, no one is all that | interested in twitching.
Also, nobody is willing to get shot!
The deployment of IPv6 is going to be EXPENSIVE in terms of real opex and probably real capex as well, it IS going to be visible on the bottom line of every ISP on the planet, eroding whatever margins one has.
I can't see the deployment of IPv6 *ever* leading to any but the shortest-term revenue upside (if even that), therefore until the entire aggregate gross revenue of transit-providing ISPs up and down the entire food-chain is threatened, nobody will be deploying v6.
The only alternative scenario I can think of is the deployment of IPv6 by a large provider who believes it can trigger a huge consolidation by pushing smaller ISPs it is competing with into an expensive deployment through sheer hype.
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Sean.
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