[arin-ppml] Effect of ARIN's Letters

[Tony Valenti]

What is interesting about the Slashdot post is that they said "there appears
to be no business case for IPV6".  The reason I find this interesting is
that 4 years ago I met with the engineering team of one of our datacenters
and I was asking them a lot of questions about us wanting to use IPV6.
During the course of the conversation their lead engineer said
"Unfortunately there is no business case to use IPV6.  It does not matter
that IPV4 is in the process of running out, there will not be a business
case to move to it until IPV4 has completely run out."

I personally would love for us to be able to provision new equipment on
IPV6, but the fact remains, as a small-time web hosting service provider, if
I put websites on an IPV6 address, according to Network World (
http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/279477/ipv6_fails_reach_5_percent_internet),
95% of the internet would not be able to talk to our gear, and of
course,
we'd go out of business if we told customers "Don't worry about your website
and email being down - the most tech savy 5% of the internet can still email
you".

I'm still convinced that in order for IPV6 to be successful, the ISPs like
ComCast, Verizon, COX, and Qwest have to make the first move and say "We're
going IPV6 _ONLY_".  Once those numbers have flipped and 95% of "outgoing"
internet is on IPV6, then I won't be scared about IPV6.

Tony V.

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On Thu, Apr 30, 2009 at 5:20 PM, John Schnizlein <schnizlein at isoc.org>wrote:

> Unfortunately, this article repeats the distorted headline from the
> NetworkWorld (NW) article about "no business case" when the ISOC
> survey actually found customer demand for IPv6 as a strong reason to
> deploy it.
>
> The NW does include this:
> "However, survey respondents said customer demand for IPv6 is on the
> rise and that they are planning or deploying IPv6 because they feel it
> is the next major development in the evolution of the Internet."
>
> John
>
> On 2009Apr30, at 6:10 PM, Leo Bicknell wrote:
>
> >
> > ARIN's letters are getting some attention:
> >
> > http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/30/2051235
> >
> > --
> >       Leo Bicknell - bicknell at ufp.org - CCIE 3440
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