[address-policy-wg] RE: The price of address space

Perhaps I am taking a longer view - but any business should be following some sort of 3|5|7 year planning model ... 
And I just don't see a model where, within those time-frames, an Internet based business - or one with any real web-centric operations (online presence, consuming or providing services - or have clients/business partners who do) - can afford to ignore IPv6.

So, does anyone NEED IPv6 deployed in their network TODAY ... Perhaps not.  But if they haven't started the process (or at the very least evaluated the impacts of doing|not doing so!), and fall into the above category(ies), they are being short-sighted and perhaps even negligent.  ((Still IMHO))


/TJ
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-----Original Message-----
From: Nick Hilliard <nick at inex.ie>

Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:28:44 
To: <address-policy-wg at ripe.net>
Subject: Re: [address-policy-wg] RE: The price of address space


On 23/07/2009 23:09, trejrco at gmail.com wrote:
> I continue to be amazed at statements like:
> "Today, it is not necessary to deploy IPv6 at all."

You shouldn't be.  To understand why, you need to look at how much money 
businesses currently make on provisioning ipv4 services and compare that 
against how much money they make from provisioning ipv6 services.  Or to 
turn the question around, can you build a useful internet business right 
now which is entirely ipv6 free?

We need to appreciate that outside hobbyists and usenet news, deliberate 
ipv6 data transport is still tiny.  This may change in a scenario of ipv4 
address scarcity, but as most companies have not given any consideration 
whatever to how their business models will cope with ipv4 address scarcity, 
the question of ipv6 is still largely irrelevant to them.

Nick