[arin-discuss] Trying to Understand IPV6

[Owen DeLong]

On Sep 13, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Mike Lieberman wrote:

> Dan,
> Huh? I never suggested we should restrict giving out addresses that were
> requested, only that a /48 of public IP to my 96yo mother who is quite happy
> with her NAT'ed little IP world make no sense.
> 
It will make a lot more sense when her NAT'ed little IPv4 world stops being
able to reach a meaningful proportion of new sites that are IPv6 only, she'll
probably want at least some form of IPv6 capability. Will she ever adapt
to wanting to be able to use her cell phone to query the stock levels in the
fridge? Probably not. However, your 90 year old mother is a very small
minority of IP consumers. The majority, especially over time, will actually
want these kinds of innovations to be available to them and for those
people, a /48 makes perfect sense.

Owen

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dan White [mailto:dwhite at olp.net] 
> Sent: Monday, September 13, 2010 4:29 PM
> To: Mike Lieberman
> Cc: arin-discuss at arin.net
> Subject: Re: Trying to Understand IPV6
> 
>> Just because we have the numbers does not mean we should distribute them.
> 
> That actually sounds pretty risky to me, as a business decision, in a
> competitive service provider environment.
> 
> 
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