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

[Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond]

On 18/09/2012 12:27, Fahd A. Batayneh wrote:
>
>     (I always thought it would be the UK or the US at #1; funny
>     they're not even top 10
>
>
> For a country having a v4 pool of IP addresses ~3 times the number of
> its population, why on earth would they think about IPv6 seriously
> (taking into account the cost vs. revenue structure it currently
> possesses for them and the fact that the rest of the world has other
> more important issues to deal with such as accessing the Internet itself).

If you look at the Internet using the current prism, of course there's
no real need to move to IPv6.
But then consider the day when a whizz kid will invent a killer app that
needs native IPv6 to run and that everyone and their dog will want to
have. What then? Implementing IPv6 takes time and investment, we all
know, and those who will not be ready will be crying about how unfair
the Internet is, just like many are crying today... many of whom laughed
at the Internet in 1992.
Kind regards,

Olivier

-- 
Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond, PhD
http://www.gih.com/ocl.html

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