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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6
On Thu, Jun 28, 2007 at 01:27:30PM -0400, Aaron Daubman wrote: > > On 6/28/07, chuck goolsbee <[email protected]> wrote: > >You left out: The "killer-app." > >Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. > >The IPv-ONLY google/porn/web/tube/iphone/whatever that enough people > >want/desire/need/are-willing-to-pay-for to move the network to IPv6. > > I wonder what it would take to convince a major online retailer > (Amazon?), an auction site (eBay?) or even transaction handlers > (google checkout, paypal?) to put up v6 portals that offered > across-the-board (or even select) discounts to customers coming in > through their v6-only portal? i presume it would take you to pay for the shortfall plus the cost of their implementing this distinction > Perhaps I'm simply too naive, but I would imagine that even a small % > discount (from within the business' profit margin) would be incentive > enough to get customers to at least start asking how they can get > access to this cheaper IPv6 portal... (the lengths many people will go > to to save a little money, often even spending more than they save in > the process, is amazing in and of itself) i cant understand why any retailer would limit its access to the marketplace for the sake of an obscure technical argument that their beardy long haired IT guy reckons is a good idea. imagine the board room discussion.. "and this will limit us to only 0.5% of our global market?" "and we need to by $x,xxx,xxx of new hardware to make this happen?" "and it will take xxxx man hours at a cost of $xxx,xxx?" this is the core of my argument here about whether v6 is the obvious solution to v4 depletion - what is the cost to push this technology vs other options. it needs to be cheaper else you are working an uphill battle > ...I would think it would also cause additional publicity for the > sites from the ensuing (even if only in the tech community) news > reporting, and that there may even be future gov't incentives > (write-off the discount?) for such practices. well, that may well be worth some $$$ but only if you are the first one! and if i were amazon, i'd say okay i'll do this but i'm only going to list my networking books on this v6 system - i can entertain the technical world, not lose any revenue, incur a minimal cost, and get the marketing points Steve
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