[ppml] "Who's afraid of IPv4 address depletion? Apparently no one."

John Curran jcurran at istaff.org
Sat Feb 9 12:52:54 EST 2008


At 5:35 PM +0000 2/9/08, Paul Vixie wrote:
>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?

Interesting thought...  the answer is likely yes, but it actually may
be more likely an opportunity for smaller ISP's as it's the ratio of
supply over usage rate that determines how long one can stretch an
IPv4-only connectivity model.  It changes to more of an opportunity
for deeply-funded entities in the presence of a market-like transfer
policies.

/John



More information about the ARIN-PPML mailing list