[arin-ppml] Ted's Comment on 2009-2

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Maimon [mailto:jmaimon at chl.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, April 29, 2009 10:38 AM
> To: Ted Mittelstaedt
> Cc: 'Scott Beuker'; 'ARIN PPML'
> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Ted's Comment on 2009-2
> 
> 
> 
> Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
> >  
> 
> > 
> > This isn't about driving IPv6.  It's about blocking IPv6.  
> Right now 
> > there's ISPs ready and willing to deploy IPv6 and they 
> can't - because 
> > they are single-homed and their upstream - a larger ISP - 
> isn't ready 
> > and isn't routing IPv6.
> 
> To reiterate, I dont view it in quite those technical terms. 
> As I see it, a smaller organization cannot or will not take 
> the risks of pushing an ipv6 product until the larger 
> organizations are doing so.
> 
> Smaller organizations get their money from selling a better 
> product than large organizations and at this point from a 
> customers point of view,
> ipv6 is barely a value add to ipv4, forget about replacement.
> 

I'll bet you a beer that it will be the smaller ISP's
who make native IPv6 available to their residential customers over
broadband BEFORE larger ISPs do.

Ted