[31110] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: When IPv6 ... if ever?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Marshall Eubanks)
Sun Sep 10 10:11:06 2000
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Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 10:14:18 -0400
From: Thomas Marshall Eubanks <tme@21rst-century.com>
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smd@clock.org wrote:
> | The bottom-line appears that everyone is waiting for everyone else to
> | twitch first, then the shoot-out starts. However, no one is all that
> | interested in twitching.
>
> Also, nobody is willing to get shot!
>
> The deployment of IPv6 is going to be EXPENSIVE in terms of real opex
> and probably real capex as well, it IS going to be visible on the bottom
> line of every ISP on the planet, eroding whatever margins one has.
>
> I can't see the deployment of IPv6 *ever* leading to any but the
> shortest-term revenue upside (if even that), therefore until the
> entire aggregate gross revenue of transit-providing ISPs up and
> down the entire food-chain is threatened, nobody will be deploying v6.
>
> The only alternative scenario I can think of is the deployment
> of IPv6 by a large provider who believes it can trigger a huge
> consolidation by pushing smaller ISPs it is competing with into an
> expensive deployment through sheer hype.
>
>
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>
> Sean.
What about wireless IP? Isn't everyone supposed to be forced to adopt IPv6
once billions of mobile units start using it ?
http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/stories/news/0,4164,2590226,00.html
Regards
Marshall Eubanks
T.M. Eubanks
Multicast Technologies, Inc.
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