[arin-ppml] Revised -- Policy Proposal 2009-4: IPv4 RecoveryFund

[Tom Vest]

On Apr 13, 2009, at 7:22 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:

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>> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Revised -- Policy Proposal 2009-4:
>> IPv4 RecoveryFund
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>> Lucrative businesses often take root in gaps like this;
>> what's going to prevent them from doing so in this case?
>> More to the point, what's going to motivate the new market
>> makers to accept a near-term closure of this particular gap,
>> given the possibility of keeping it open indefinitely?
>>
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> Nothing.  But, there are still people selling old wooden candlestick
> telephones for home use:
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> http://www.eurocosm.com/Application/Products/Teleph/150-series-GB.asp
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> "...What distinguishes our range of candlestick telephones is ... the
> care we take in producing an attractive museum piece that can be used
> every day for making calls..."
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> Once the majority of the Internet has
> switched to IPv6, there will be plenty of IPv4 available for
> those who want to dual-stack for the next 50 years.
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> What matters is what the large networks do - what the majority
> does.  For where they go, the rest of the world will eventually
> follow.
>
> Ted

History suggests that what the large networks do may indeed dictate  
what the rest of the world can/must do.
But I suspect that we've all noticed that the two activity-sets are  
rarely the same -- and quite often they represent non-overlapping  
subsets of the universe of commercial strategies.

Think about how interconnection works.

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