[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently noone."

[Paul Vixie]

jcurran at istaff.org (John Curran) writes:

> At 10:05 AM -0500 2/9/08, Howard, W. Lee wrote:
> >I'm an ISP customer.  My IPv4 network isn't growing (maybe
> >I add a /28 per year).  Tell me why I care about IPv6.
> 
> You don't, until some ISP is wedged in such a tight corner that
> they need to connect new customers with just IPv6 (because
> they can't seem to obtain&route additional IPv4 space at any
> realistic cost).
> ...

so there's an opportunity here for IPv4-rich ISP's to delay their
own IPv6 transition, including dual-stack, so as to acquire customers
and cash flows from IPv4-poor ISP's, during a transition period that
can be deliberately extended by such delay?
-- 
Paul Vixie