[governance] IPv4, R.I.P.: Europe hits old internet address limits

[Fahd A. Batayneh]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 11:30 PM, David Conrad <drc at virtualized.org> wrote:

> (snip)
>
> But they do take it seriously, probably because those IPv4 addresses are
> already allocated and the ISPs in the US, like ISPs everywhere, wish to
> continue to grow at minimal cost. In many cases, the challenge is dealing
> with the installed base of equipment that is not capable of supporting
> IPv6. When you have 25 million customers (like Comcast does so I hear) and
> each customer has a $30 piece of equipment that has to be replaced, you
> might begin to see why end user take up can be a bit slow.
>

I would never agree less, but a country having the majority of Tier-1 ISPs
should do much better when it comes to IPv6.

Fahd
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