On 12/16/15, 7:14 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Mel Beckman" <nanog-boun...@nanog.org on behalf of m...@beckman.org> wrote:
>Mark, > >Why? Why do WE "need" to force people to bend to our will? The market >will get us all there eventually. Some companies will run out of IPv4 addresses before others. When that happens, they have four choices: 1. Buy IPv4 addresses. But supply is going; in a couple of years, there will be nothing larger than a /16. And this raises costs, and therefore consumer prices. 2. Address sharing. Breaks p2p, some other things. 3. Address family translation. Breaks several things. 4. IPv6-only. Means only IPv6-enabled content is available. That¹s why some values of $we ³need² to force people to deploy IPv6: so $we don¹t screw consumers and break the Internet. But those with IPv4 addresses see exhaustion as someone else¹s problem. They don¹t care if somebody else¹s prices go up, unless they¹re the ones blamed for the rising prices. (³You have to pay more for Internet access or you won¹t be able to reach Amazon or eBay.²) They might not like the performance of address sharing/translation, but if they wait until they notice the pain, and it takes them two years to respond, they¹re already in serious trouble. There is still time for companies without IPv6 to get it deployed before going out of business. But anyone who isn¹t done two years from now is in trouble. Lee