-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote:
G T Smith wrote:
James Knott wrote:
?! Early adopters are usually the ones who end up in difficulty. Those who learn by someone else mistakes and do their own R&D usually are better positioned to not be cut by the bleeding edge when they do decide to adopt.
I was referring to a period for setting things up and making sure they work, before deploying to customers, although they might be offered a "beta" service. Doing so is much better that working in panic mode, where you all of a sudden find you have to do something yesterday, to provide what your customers need NOW!!!. What happens to an ISP, who ignored the depletion of IPv4 addresses, when the day comes when he goes to get another IPv4 block and can't get one? Will they then start learning about IPv6? IPv6 has been in the works for many years (I first read about it 15 years ago) and has been in use for years too. The tools are already here. It's been proven. The ones who will have problems are the ones who haven't prepared. Not understanding where your business is heading and preparing for it is not only short sighted, it's suicidal.
My mobile provider uses NAT 10.x.x.x addresses while the land network seems to have fairly large network address pool (possibly by grabbing address space a long time ago), while some latecomer ISPs may be facing this as a potential problem (as they missed the early allocation grab). In the old scheme where countries tended to be allocated class A addresses, may have also had the result that some of the smaller nations may not be facing the same issues I think some providers will need a lot of persuading that this is a immediate problem for consumer networks for some time to come (commercial and academic networks are a different story). I remember predictions that American/European address space would runout a decade ago, it has not yet. The introduction of NAT seems to have mitigated some of the address issues. Usage of IPv6 is still not really that high, though policy decisions in the US and Asian address requirements will increase usage - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwLxeIACgkQasN0sSnLmgLo+QCgoQq/IGlv0NBTqq3k60JgtSs7 H9UAoKSVEA1ehiURWtu9FtgJdx5Dqf/n =9SAG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org