From: Tony Li [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >To clarify the issue at hand: we're interested in renumbering >of end-user sites and changes in the locator namespace.
Yes, Tony. I followed you there, and tried to address it when I said that there is no business case for the large end user to renumber so it just isn't going to happen. I fault the IETF (and RRG) for consistently failing to recognize some exceedingly elementary economics: if you want to stay in business, then you don't waste money on needless non-business expenses. Therefore, if anybody is going to renumber, it will be an organization that has a positive business case to do so, such as an ISP. Let's change topics slightly to talk a bit more about elementary economics. End users pay ISPs for their Internet connectivity. It is therefore the ISP's responsibility to deliver Internet connectivity. If they can't, then they will go out of business. ISPs are therefore motivated to eventually solve the Internet scaling problem -- whether publicly or privately -- because they know that if they don't deliver effective Internet connectivity, then the end users will use some other ISP or, worse case, develop alternative marketplaces that exclude them. Only a suicidal ISP would dare to suggest that a large end user renumber as part of an ISP solution because that would negatively differentiate themselves from their competitors and they would consequently lose market share, perhaps insurmountably. -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
