[address-policy-wg] 2007-8 discussions

Michael,

On Oct 13, 2008, at 4:34 AM, <michael.dillon at bt.com> <michael.dillon at bt.com 
 > wrote:
> I am assuming that ISPs will sort out the remaining technical
> issues and deploy them within the next two to three years so
> that they can indeed provide IPv6 network access that allows
> communication with 100% of the Internet.

Just for the sake of argument, let's go out on a limb and say (for  
whatever reason), the ISPs do NOT work out the remaining technical  
issues and deploy IPv6 in a way that will meet their customer  
requirements before the IPv4 free pool is exhausted.  I see the  
following options for ISPs:

a) stop growing, turn away customers (or, more likely, raise prices to  
drive out the lower paying customers to free up space for new customers)

b) buy up any organization they can find that has address space

c) go to the black market to obtain new address space at a market- 
defined price

d) accept new customers only if they come with their own address space

e) start selling (potentially multi-layer) NAT'd connectivity

Do you see any other options?

Thanks,
-drc