[30955] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (smd@clock.org)
Sat Sep 2 13:42:40 2000
From: smd@clock.org
To: nanog@merit.edu, nathan@terminus.com, rmeyer@MHSC.com
Message-Id: <20000902174042Z6809-16180+8@cesium.clock.org>
Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2000 10:40:32 -0700
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
If I charge a customer more for IPv6 connectivity than for IPv4
connectivity, to offset the costs of dealing with ships-in-the-night
routing (deploying it, training everyone to understand it), do you
think my entire customer base is going to transition over to IPv6?
Ask yourself, as an ISP, how much more you are willing to pay your
transit providers for IPv4 + IPv6 transit, and how you are going
to get the money for that and for the deployment/retraining costs.
Then ask yourself, as an ISP, what benefit you get from IPv6.
My answers: not a chance, none, and zero, respectively.
Sean.
