Idea

[Stephen Elliott]

I think you misread the message, IP's under IPv6 do not cost $5 apiece. 
 I was saying that if they did cost $5 each under IPv4 and cost nothing 
under IPv6, corporations would have a financial incentive to reduce the 
number of IPv4 IP's they use, and at the same time accelerate the switch 
to IPv6.
-Stephen

----- Original Message -----
From: mharrigan at winfirst.com
Date: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 5:39 pm
Subject: RE: Idea

> 
> I guess i'm still missing the point. 
> If the average ISP in question does not have the scruples
> which you or I have, and they are not required to pay for v4
> space today, then what possible reason would they have to 
> switch to v6, which has a $5 price tag? IT's analagous to the
> NIC situation, where netsol announced that .com/.net/.org would
> be X dollars per reg, but not until said date. What did people
> do? They went out and registered every possible domain they could.
> The same concept will apply here, except that where people will be
> driven is to submit ARIN regs for v4, and falsify their current
> utilizations. All I can say is... bye bye Internet. So, my overall
> point is that... I don't like paying taxes. The large majority of
> the population of planet earth responds to positive
> reinforcement, so a model that reflects it is what I think we ought
> to be shooting for, and no, I haven't devised one....yet. :-)
> 
> Matt
> 
> Matthew G. Harrigan
> Vice President, Internet Services
> WinFirst
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> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jawaid.Bazyar at foreThought.net
> [mailto:Jawaid.Bazyar at foreThought.net]
> Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2001 9:54 AM
> To: mharrigan at winfirst.com
> Cc: stephen at hnt.com; vwp at arin.net
> Subject: RE: Idea
> 
> 
> 
> The mere fact of charging more for it doesn't create it, but does 
> createpressures and incentives to solve the problem.
> 
> To wit, right now IPv6 is academic. If IPs cost $5/mo per, a lot more
> people would be a lot more interested in IPv6.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Jan 2001 mharrigan at winfirst.com wrote:
> 
> > $.02 - 
> > If there were a shortage of rice in China, I'm not sure
> > that charging more for it would solve the fact that there
> > isn't enough, regardless of what the RFC for rice is.
> > 
> > -Matt 
> > 
> > Matthew G. Harrigan
> > Vice President, Internet Services
> > WinFirst
> > 303-407-1661  
> > www.winfirst.com
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