On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 10:34 AM, Zed Usser <zzuser@yahoo.com> wrote:
Reduce, yes. Remove, no. Without a global cutoff date for the IPv6 transition, it's not like IPv4 is going to disappear overnight. Furthermore, without any IPv4/IPv6 translation, the first IPv6 only networks are going to be awfully lonely.
I suspect Google, Microsoft, and others have already figured out a beneficial (to everyone) way to monetize this. If I'm an ISP with working IPv6, and my competitor in a given region is an ISP without IPv6, I'd like to advertise to all the end-users of that ISP whenever they go to a search engine that sells ads. Since these search engine companies have figured out white-listing users into "good IPv6," it's no great leap to suggest that they'll eventually black-list IPv4 users into "bad," and tie that into their advertising system for ISPs to purchase nicely-targeted banners/links. If my ISP is reading this, please tell both your residential and business technical and sales departments to come up with a better answer than "we are not going to support IPv6 because that's only for ISPs that run out of IPv4." Otherwise, I'd bet Google will be more than willing to let your competitors give customers a different answer in the near future! -- Jeff S Wheeler <jsw@inconcepts.biz> Sr Network Operator / Innovative Network Concepts