Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

[Eliot Lear <lear at cisco.com>]

[elaborating]

Stephen Sprunk wrote:
> Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <lear at cisco.com>
> > Providing PI to enterprises who move now is a nice bonus, not
> > not necessary in the long run.
>
> That comment shows how completely out of touch you are with the 
> enterprise operational world.  Unfortunately, that is rather common 
> with the ivory-tower vendor folks commenting in this thread.  Even the 
> ISPs in the operational community could _understand_ why PI is 
> necessary, however much they dislike and/or fear it.
>
> I should also note that you're commenting from an enterprise that 
> side-stepped the RIR rules somehow and got PI space by pretending to 
> be an LIR.  The world must look a little different when the rules 
> you're a proponent of magically don't apply to _you_.

You've misunderstood my comment, and you don't know my history.  I would 
like for enterprises to be able to have PI addresses.  What I am saying 
is that the economics of IPv4 about to radically shift such that the 
cost of staying on IPv4 is going to inflate over time.  As that happens 
the costs of moving to IPv6 begin to look attractive.  It's like 
drilling for oil in America, to mangle an analogy of a colleague.  
Nobody needs to do it when the cost of oil is $18 a barrel, but the 
matter is considerably different at $80.

Eliot

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