On 03/31/2010 08:52 PM, Patrick Giagnocavo wrote: > We have just (anecdotally, empirically) established earlier in this > thread, that anything smaller than a mid-sized business, can't even > *GET* IPv6 easily (at least in the USA); much less care about it.
fwiw, that last time I was at a company that needed a prefix, we wrote up an addressing plan, applied, received an assignment, payed our money and were done. if a pool of public addresses are a resource you need to run your business you can secure it, and it's simpler and dealing with for example health insurance. > Talking about a "crystal ball", in my view, is just a lot of hand-waving > that means "I don't have a real-world example to point to". > > Talking about "the Next Big Thing" means that somehow, the NBT will be > present without any residential or small business broadband users > partaking in it. Sounds like a pretty small piece of the pie for the NBT... > > For the record, I have no dog in this fight; I just think that the > rhetoric / fanboi-ism / advocacy level is just a little too high - > emotion rather than reason is taking over in the course of debate, which > for me at least, is unwelcome. > > Cordially > > Patrick >