[AusNOG] Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated

[Skeeve Stevens]

Problem is that users just want 'internet' and in general don't feel they need to care about anything else - much less even know what ipv4 or ipv6 is, they just know the term 'ip address'.

For the last 6 months I've been asking most people if they know what ipv4 or ipv6 is? They have no idea - and most of them are in IT.

End users don't care about ipv6, but it seems we're going to have to try to make them care because of the cpe issue. It is going to be a painful time.

...Skeeve
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From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net <ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>
To: Geoff Huston <gih at apnic.net>
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Sent: Thu Jan 21 11:50:38 2010
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated


On 21/01/2010, at 11:07 AM, Geoff Huston wrote:
> What tends to get tractions with vendors, large and small, is purchase orders! The  problem is that for CPE its not the ISP that conventionally buys the CPE, its the end users who head to their local retail outlet online or in the store and buy the (cheapest) unit they can get their hands on, and, unfortunately, no IPv6 is included in their requirements in general. So unless the ISP wants to package up the CPE and include devices that fold in a good implementation of IPv6 (such as the rather cool FRITZ!Box from germany, and the extremely capable but somewhat pricey for the home consumer Cisco 877 offering), then nothing happens.

So how long until we see ISPs raising prices on access plans via an IPv4 address levy and offering discounted rates for users who can support IPv6? If it's a significant difference in their monthly access fee, it will put IPv6 on that end-users' requirements list when shopping for a CPE.

Tom
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