[99683] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating demand for IPv6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Tue Oct 2 12:56:26 2007
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 12:42:23 -0400
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "Brian Raaen" <braaen@zcorum.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200710020747.01022.braaen@zcorum.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 10/2/07, Brian Raaen <braaen@zcorum.com> wrote:
> Actually, a
> better way to push IPv6 is make users want it and feel like they are missing
> out if they don't have it. I campaign with some kind of slogan like 'got
> IPv6' or "I've got ultra high tech IPv6 for my internet and you don't" with a
> web url like www.getipv6.com (oops, some domain squatter already registered
> it).
Brian,
I offer you two words: Ford Edsel.
It doesn't matter how clever you make the marketing campaign if on
finding out what the product actually is the customers decide they
don't want it.
> This all boils down to simple economics.... supply and demand.
As far as I can tell, IPv6 is at least theoretically capable of
offering exactly two things that IPv4 does not offer and can't easily
be made to offer:
1. More addresses.
2. Provider independent addresses
At the customer level, #1 has been thoroughly mitigated by NAT,
eliminating demand. Indeed, the lack of IPv6 NAT creates a negative
demand: folks used to NAT don't want to give it up.
This community (network operators) has refused to permit #2, even to
the extent that its present in IPv4, eliminating that source of demand
as well.
Regards,
Bill Herrin
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