[158496] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: "Programmers can't get IPv6 thus that is why they do not have
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dobbins, Roland)
Fri Nov 30 18:01:07 2012
From: "Dobbins, Roland" <rdobbins@arbor.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:00:42 +0000
In-Reply-To: <FF91FF78-F224-4A29-8DAE-24312EE1B99B@delong.com>
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On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:27 PM, Owen DeLong wrote:
> 60% of the world's population still isn't on the internet and I expect a =
significant fraction of that will be coming on in the next 2-4 years.
I live and work in a part of the world which contains a sizable subset of t=
hat 60% - i.e., Asia.
I see just about zero IPv6 awareness, much less deployment, except peripher=
ally in Japan and, to an even lesser degree, the RoK.
I see so many other challenges facing so many IPv4 networks in this region =
that it's inconceivable that they would be deploying IPv6 within the next 2=
-4 years, or even the foreseeable future.
Also, it appears to me that a large proportion of the population in this re=
gion who have both a sufficient amount of disposable income (it doesn't req=
uire much here, especially via mobile wireless, but it's still more than a =
lot of people have) and a corresponding degree of interest to obtain and be=
nefit from Internet access, and who are in fact likely to ever get Internet=
access, already have it. So, I'm not so sure that there are still these v=
ast numbers of underserved yet eager potential Internet users out there, as=
is commonly mooted.
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