[arin-ppml] Ted's Comment on 2009-2

[Joe Maimon]

Stacy Hughes wrote:
> 
> Ted Mittelstaedt
> 12:25
> 
> comment - let's quit dancing around this small/large ISP issue, the 
> heart of it is that flexibility aside, most smaller ISP's don't have as 
> much money to put into capital improvements like new routers.  Because 
> of this, most of them will want to delay purchase of new IPv6-compliant 
> routing equipment as long as possible to take advantage of falling 
> prices.  Frankly, a surprising number of small ISP's are almost 
> certainly  buying used routers off -Ebay (SOMEONE is buying those 7200's 
> that are all over Ebay) so the longer they can delay the move to IPv6 
> the less cost it will be for them.


The other side to look at is that large ISP's moving to ipv6 for their
end users legitimizes the market for the rest.

Small orgs do not have the option of pushing ipv6 onto end users.

Large orgs may fear losing customers to small orgs for the year or so
that small orgs are able to turn up ipv4 while they may not be able to do.