[136732] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Fri Feb 4 14:09:13 2011
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D4C49BE.3030907@hstrauss.co.za>
Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2011 19:08:03 +0000
To: Heinrich Strauss <heinrich@hstrauss.co.za>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Heinrich Strauss wrote:
> So once the "early" adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is =
no business need to maintain the IPv4 allocation and that will be =
returned to the free pool, since Business would see it as an unnecessary =
cost.
Interesting reasoning. I would think that until we have pretty wide IPv4 =
implementation, the business need to keep the allocation is to talk with =
the people who have not yet implemented it. =46rom a Reductio ad =
Absurdum perspective, imagine that facebook or youtube, now that they =
have implemented IPv6, felt obliged to give up their IPv4 allocation =
immediately? It would mean that they were out of business, which I =
should think might be an excellent business reason to not deploy IPv6.=
