[AusNOG] IPv6 excuses

[Mark Delany]

> There isn't a immediate return.

You could also argue that early adopters are paying a higher price as
they have to wrassle with equipment vendors, train staff, deal with
end-user issues such as old OS instances, deal with competing/evolving
standards/concepts around address management. And, in effect, incur
the cost of managing two networks instead of one.

The "Jonny-come-lately" crowd reap all the benefits of the early
mis-steps, are able to more easily acquire trained staff, are certain
that vendor kit is now well known to work in all cases, can jump onto
ausnog and get instant answers, can simply adopt BCPs that didn't
formerly exist, etc., etc.

>From a purely business perspective it is appealing to hold off until
the very last instant as each passing day makes the transition that
little bit easier thanks to the work of others.

Early adoption is hardly a competitive advantage and businesses are
generally not dumb. If a v4-only hosting company asks you to quantify
how much revenue it has lost thus far, what would your answer be?
Probaby less than zero methinks.

So they will jump, but they have to see an obvious competitive
advantage/disadvantage first.

Until then, us tech-types have to continue the struggle with our
bottom-up approach which is painful and slow.


Mark.