[arin-ppml] is NAT an inevitabile part of IPv4 / IPv6 transition

Joel Jaeggli joelja at bogus.com
Tue Feb 8 23:18:58 EST 2011


On 2/8/11 7:50 PM, Mark Andrews wrote:
> If ISPs had been informing their customers about IPv6 10 years ago
> then charging extra for IPv4 over IPv6 would have been reasonable.
> As it is none of them did so I would expect government consumer
> affairs departments to actually come down hard on ISPs that attempt
> something like that.

The human capacity for procrastination knows basically no bounds. ten
years before that people with vivid imaginations were working on a
solution to the problem. a decade before that more or less the question
of exhaustion first came up.

I've got six years worth of time spent as undergrad to demonstrate my
comparable effectiveness at work avoidance, and my time machine is
faulty so I prefer to focus on the future.

;)

> Mark




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