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

[Chris Grundemann]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 17:54, Ted Mittelstaedt <tedm at ipinc.net> wrote:
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net
>> [mailto:arin-ppml-bounces at arin.net] On Behalf Of Joe Maimon
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2009 4:31 PM
>> Cc: ARIN PPML
>> Subject: Re: [arin-ppml] Ted's Comment on 2009-2
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>> 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.
>>
>
> I'm under no illusions that qwest.net is the slightest bit concerned
> about losing DSL customers to us. ;-)
>
> Keep in mind that it's NOT the small orgs who were at the ARIN meeting
> who are the ones I'm concerned about.  THEY are among the ones who will be
> up
> and willing and ready for IPv6.  It's the ones who are completely oblivious
> to
> what's going on right now - many of these may not even have their own
> portable numbers yet.
>
> I really fear that if we do not have the dribs and drabs of IPv4 that are
> left after runout available for these orgs, or if available but priced in
> the stratosphere, that some of them will be harmed.

To play the devils advocate; if an ISP of any size is truly oblivious
to what's going on right now do they deserve to be protected at the
detriment of orgs who _are_ clueful?  Or does responsibility for this
ignorance fall back to us who are "in the know" for not spreading the
word?  I guess my question is:  If a couple sheep run headlong off the
cliff, is that the fault of the shepherd or of the sheep?

IMHO, the answer is that it depends.  Did the shepherd do everything
(s)he should have to protect/guide the sheep?  Probably the more
important question though is who will be asking that question, by whom
will we be judged?  If we are judged by the big (and powerful) orgs
the answer will be much different than if we are judged by the small
ones who ran off the cliff (or were saved from said cliff)...

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>
> Ted
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