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

[Walid AL-SAQAF <alkasir admin>]

Well-said Olivier.

It kind of reminds me of a famous quote by Thomas Edison *"The reason a lot
of people do not recognize opportunity is because it usually goes around
wearing overalls looking like hard work."*

And the opportunity to be IPv6-ready is staring at us in the face.

Sincerely,

Walid

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Walid Al-Saqaf
Founder & Administrator
alkasir for mapping and circumventing cyber censorship
https://alkasir.com <walid.al-saqaf at oru.se>


On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond <ocl at gih.com>wrote:

>
> 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, PhDhttp://www.gih.com/ocl.html
>
>
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