Re: Sad IPv4 story?

[Eric Parsonage <eric () eparsonage com>]

On 11/12/2011, at 2:37 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:48:45 EST, Barry Shein said:
> > > > I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific
> > > > area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their
> > > > business the way they would like?
> >
> > This sniping elicited by the above seems inappropriate and
> > unprofessional, the request/anecdote seemed reasonable and could
> > elicit solutions such as partnerships, etc.
>
> No Barry, I respectfully disagree.  It's almost 2012.  The first predictions of
> IPv4 exhaustion were made *last century*.  We've been predicting it to the
> month level for like 5 years now.  Any business that is making business plans
> and models that doesn't take "we may not get IPv4 space" into account and have
> a contingency plan for that *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in
> public.


You could take this one step further and say any industry that has had this much warning and hasn’t taken it into 
account *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in public.