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On 3/6/06 6:14 PM, "Stephen Sprunk" <[email protected]> wrote: > Thus spake "Daniel Golding" <[email protected]> >> On 3/6/06 10:25 AM, "Stephen Sprunk" <[email protected]> wrote: >>> So, unless there's policy change, most end-user orgs will have no >>> choice but to pay the market rate for IPv4 addresses. Spot markets >>> are good when demand is elastic, but we're faced with a market that >>> has growing inelastic demand that will outstrip fixed supply in a >>> decade. Capitalism doesn't handle that well. >> >> There will be a average cost per host to transition from v4 to v6. When >> the >> cost of IPv4 addresses exceeds the transition cost, then you have the one >> thing missing from IPv6 discussions: an ROI. > > Please quantify the cost of not being able to multihome your > mission-critical business. Compare to the cost of obtaining an IPv4 PI > block. Both are likely to exceed the possible revenue for small businesses > at some point not too far off. > This is of course, making the assumption (which may be in error) at PI IPv6 space will happen, through 2005-1 or some other policy. Absent PI IPv6 space, IPv6 simply wont happen, shim6 or not. -- Daniel Golding
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