[30959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Morton)
Sat Sep 2 17:30:35 2000
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Date: Sat, 02 Sep 2000 23:28:08 +0200
From: Dave Morton <dave@manbitesdog.de>
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smd@clock.org wrote:
>
> 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.
Now we're hitting the nail on the head. Well said Doran !!
dave
