Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

["Bob Evans" <bob () FiberInternetCenter com>]

IPv4's works better today than ever before. IP space in North America has
now officially turned into a revenue source for networks. Most private
enterprise customers understand costs and profits. Business does not
understand free stuff in a free market. Hence, IPv4 is no longer free in a
block range perspective.

To any business with rising employee medical insurance, electricity and
office rent rates, an IP address cost is just not on the radar. Just not a
large enough cost to make IPv6 look financially attractive. Only when IPv4
address costs begin to exceed that of the hardware and labor conversion
costs, will IPv6 gain traction in North America.

So for the most part your teenage kids will grow up in an IPv4 world until
they are probably 30,something. But, your grand kids will see IPv4 as
soooo old. That's all contingent upon all the networks we work on start
charging $10 or more per IP address per month.

Thank You
Bob Evans
CTO




> Remember, the Internet being fully migrated to IPv6 is just 5 yrs away
> just
> like fusion power plants is 20 yrs away (although I think now they are
> saying 50 yrs away which would make IPv6 12.5 yrs away).  (=
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> On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 4:06 PM, Mike Hammett <nanog () ics-il net> wrote:
>
> > =====
> > The whole reason for the inertia
> > against going to IPv6 is "it ain't broke, so I not gonna 'fix' it."
> >
> > Now it's broke.
> > =====
> >
> > ^^^^^^^This ^^^^^^^^^^^
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -----
> > Mike Hammett
> > Intelligent Computing Solutions
> > http://www.ics-il.com
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >
> > From: "Stephen Satchell" <list () satchell net>
> > To: nanog () nanog org
> > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015 2:38:26 PM
> > Subject: Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero
> >
> > On 09/24/2015 09:49 AM, Dovid Bender wrote:
> > > The issue now is convincing clients that they need it. The other
> > > issue is many software vendors still don't support it.
> >
> > And this may trigger a refresh on routers, as people old or refurbed
> > equipment find they need to change. The whole reason for the inertia
> > against going to IPv6 is "it ain't broke, so I not gonna 'fix' it."
> >
> > Now it's broke.