[address-policy-wg] 2007-8 discussions

David and all,

  Yeah one other option that you missed that seemingly has been
getting some more attention of late, that being acquiring IPv8
address space and adjusting their systems accordingly, which
BTW is far cheaper than implimenting IPv6.

David Conrad wrote:

> 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

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