The Choice: IPv4 Exhaustion or Transition to IPv6

Thu Jun 28 17:20:45 UTC 2007

On Thu, Jun 28, 2007, chuck goolsbee wrote:
> 
> >6. Economists call this a collective action problem. Traditional
> >solutions include legislation, market leadership, and agreements among
> >small actors to achieve such leadership.
> 
> You left out:  The "killer-app."
> 
> Compelling content *only* available via the alternative technology. 
> The IPv-ONLY google/porn/web/tube/iphone/whatever that enough people 
> want/desire/need/are-willing-to-pay-for to move the network to IPv6.

You don't believe the killer app will be "sorry, no more IP addresses?"


Adrian