On 11/12/2011, at 2:37 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:48:45 EST, Barry Shein said:
I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their business the way they would like?
This sniping elicited by the above seems inappropriate and unprofessional, the request/anecdote seemed reasonable and could elicit solutions such as partnerships, etc.
No Barry, I respectfully disagree. It's almost 2012. The first predictions of IPv4 exhaustion were made *last century*. We've been predicting it to the month level for like 5 years now. Any business that is making business plans and models that doesn't take "we may not get IPv4 space" into account and have a contingency plan for that *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in public.
You could take this one step further and say any industry that has had this much warning and hasn’t taken it into account *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in public.