Per Jessen said the following on 09/10/2010 01:08 PM:
Now, to play along with your analogy from above, how about we take a look at how difficult it is and has been to sell the idea of energy conservation to people around the world and compare that to how difficult it would be to sell them a new router at CHF500 because it does IPv6 and that eliminates the need for NAT (which is really broken).
Quite. Economic incentive is an amazing thing :-) If back in the the 70s when we had that first oil/energy crisis, the price a the pump had risen - I was living in the UK at that time - from #0.50 to #5.00 overnight we would have seen a real change. Instead we boiled the frog http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling_frog The gradual canges resulted in better engines, better fuel control, lighter cars, and regressed when costswent down. In "real" terms, compared to housing, education, entertainment (CDs vs vinyl; moveie and theater tickets) and many other things, the price of gas at the pump isn't that bad. And so for much of the world that uses NAT, the address shortage has not been apparent. My 3MBps cable link today costs about 1/20th what my 56K leased line did in 1990. That's what most people see. Now when people are told that they can't join the 'Net because there are no more addresses - ZILCH! - and vendors can't expand their customer base to those people unable to join the 'Net, then we will see a revolution. Economics. And realistically, this is much more likely to happen in the developing world, China in particular, than in the USA and western Europe. Here in North America we are already in a technological backwater in other areas of consumer electronics such as cell phones. -- In the beginning was The Word and The Word was Content-type: text/plain -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org