Five Security Flaws in IPv6

[Geoff Huston]

>Whatever about the exact exhaustion date, I am going to confidently 
>predict that shortly after RIR exhaustion occurs, and things begin 
>to break because of lack of ipv4 addresses, there will be a massive 
>media fest on how ill-prepared the ISP industry was for the event, 
>and look! what a complete balls they made of the whole thing, and 
>how it's hurting business and industry, and how things would have 
>been so much better if the journalists had run network operations, 
>because they knew in advance how things were going to be.

That would be part of the path that goes along the lines of:

Denial ->  Panic -> Anger -> Blame Shifting ->  Bargaining 
->  Acceptance ->  Recovery -> Revisionism

And it appears that much of the industry is still in the initial 
stage of denial

   Geoff