[arin-ppml] Policy Proposal 2008-6

[Joe Maimon]

michael.dillon at bt.com wrote:
>> Actually it matters a lot.  There will be (are) many small 
>> businesses who will need IP addresses and depend on them for 
>> their business who will not be able to afford them.  This 
>> tips the balance heavily in the favor of the big players and 
>> against the small guy and against the consumer who will 
>> ultimately have to pay for it.
> 
> In 1995 the big telecom companies were building out ATM networks
> and the big PC magazines were touting ATM to the desktop,

Who wanted ATM to the desktop?

> and
> some kind of multichannel interactive cable-TV system called 
> the information highway. In the meantime, the little guys were
> building services using an uncommon protocol called IPv4. Uncommon
> in the sense that there were few commercial offerings of IP and
> few books or courses teaching it.
> 
> Why would the IPv6 transition be all that different? 


Because nobody wants IPv6.