IPv6 news

Thu Oct 13 16:59:59 UTC 2005

No, I actually meant IP version (IP as a protocol), but even if we pay for
the IP address (also in Spain, 12 Euros per month for a single static IPv4
address), we pay it because the services associated to it, not the IP
address itself, right ?

Regards,
Jordi

> De: "Edward W. Ray" <eray at netsecdesign.com>
> Organización: NetSec Design & Consulting, Inc.
> Responder a: <eray at netsecdesign.com>
> Fecha: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 09:45:43 -0700
> Para: <jordi.palet at consulintel.es>, <nanog at merit.edu>
> Asunto: RE: IPv6 news
> 
>  "Consumers don't pay for IP at all"
> 
> If you are referring to IP addresses, I pay $50/month for my Class C space,
> which I use from home to run my (small) company servers.
> 
> If you want a static IP from any ISP, they usually charge for it.
> 
> 
> 
> Edward W. Ray
> CISSP, MCSE 2003+Security, P.E., SANS GCIA Gold, SANS GCIH Gold
> President
> NetSec Design & Consulting
> (714) 997-9226 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
> JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
> Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 12:21 AM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> Subject: Re: IPv6 news
> 
> 
> I don't think people upgrade anymore to 98, but at least to XP (if they do
> now, at the end of next year will be doing to Vista).
> 
> I don't think either all the corporations take so long as 2 years to
> upgrade.
> 
> Of course, I don't have concrete logs to show on anything of this, but is
> not marketing just personal view based on experience with customers ;-) By
> the way, if we start requiring logs for any comment that we do in this list,
> then it may happen that the list is not so useful.
> 
> I disagree also that IPv6 is painful for the consumer, on the other way
> around. Today they need to look into manuals for configuring STBs and other
> devices. Most of the time this cost a lot of troubleshooting and support to
> vendors and ISPs, which I know is not worth for even if charged to the
> customer.
> 
> Consumers don't pay for IP at all, but for having things easier (not reading
> manuals, not needing to configure tech stuff), having more services and
> apps. Having more services and apps running into our networks will mean more
> revenue, depending on your business model (such as more free and PAY TV
> channels in a sat dish), and possibly because the increase in BW demand.
> 
> I also see much more customers interest in IPv6 outside of NA, but may be my
> wrong perception, and not talking about academia.
> 
> Regards,
> Jordi
> 
> 
> 
> 
>> De: Sean Figgins <sean at labrats.us>
>> Responder a: <owner-nanog at merit.edu>
>> Fecha: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 21:56:27 -0600 (MDT)
>> Para: "nanog at merit.edu" <nanog at merit.edu>
>> Asunto: Re: IPv6 news
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote:
>> 
>>> And in 6-12 months the new Vista will start replacing XP,
>> 
>> Will start replacing XP on new consumer-grade computers.  Corporations
>> will take another 2-4 years to switch, and other people might have
>> upgraded to windows 98 from 3.11 by then.
>> 
>> I think that we need to buy as much time as possible for IP, as V6 is
>> going to be extremely painful for the consumer, and thus the consumer
>> is not going to want to adopt it.
>> 
>> Our jobs, as network designers and operators will be make it seemless
>> to the consumer without forcing them to shell out a thousand or more
>> dollars on new Windows software, and the hardware that will be
>> required to run it on.  If that is devising some sort of NAT for the
>> large percentage of customers that don't care, then that may be the
> direction we need to take.
>> 
>> I have thought for a long time that which v6 is a worthy academic
>> persuit, customers are hardly interested in it when what they have now
> works.
>> 
>>  -Sean
> 
> 
> 
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