<div dir="ltr">Michael,<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">New entrants typically want to see predictable prices or else<br>
they simply don't enter.</blockquote><div></div><div>I think you are underestimating the amount of uncertainty that is dealt with in business plans.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
After a transfer scheme is in place, and speculators<br>
take up the remaining free pool, the price of IPv4 will be wildly<br>
unpredictable. That situation will block new entrants.</blockquote><div> </div><div>No, it will make it more risky to do so. What _will_ block new entrants is no new IPv4 being available at all, never mind at currently unknown prices.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">However, there is another aspect which involves IPv6. Large ISPs are<br>
already deploying IPv6 trials in order to be prepared for the day<br>
when they cannot grow their networks with IPv4.</blockquote><div></div><div>"already deploying IPv6 trials"</div><div></div><div>Should be production ready, oh when would you say, then?</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
This means, that a new entrant<br>
into the Internet business, can realistically use IPv6 technology<br>
and expect to be able to buy full connectivity to all IPv4 and IPv6<br>
Internet sites from one of the larger ISPs.</blockquote><div></div><div>Thank you for elucidating (quite clearly!) the problem.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
They will leave that to the larger upstream ISPs</blockquote><div></div><div>Great stuff! Even clearer.</div><div> </div><div>NRM</div></div></div>