Why you shouldn't worry about IPv6 just yet

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 8/20/2010 1:45 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> On 2010-08-21 08:15, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 8/20/2010 6:41 AM, Sebastian Wiesinger wrote:
>>> Wow, what a well researched and balanced article this is:
>>>
>>> http://www.pcpro.co.uk/realworld/360418/why-you-shouldnt-worry-about-ipv6-just-yet/
>>>
>>>
>>> I'm pondering if this article is actually sarcasm or if he is
>>> trolling.
>>>
>>
>> This is from the "The way I like it is the way it is. I got mine don't
>> worry about his" school of thought.  (with apologies to James Brown)
>
> Well, hold on. He isn't saying that ISPs shouldn't worry. He's saying that
> current ordinary users shouldn't worry. Is that so wrong?
>
> ISPs need to worry, content providers need to worry, and people who will
> be new Internet subscribers from about 2015 need to worry.
>

So if your an ordinary existing user in 2016 and your not worrying
about IPv6 because you got yours, what do you do when you get laid
off and find a new job in the next state - where your existing ISP
isn't?

With the churn rate in the business I think a lot of people will
eventually fall into the classification of "new Internet subscribers"

But more importantly, the new users getting on to the Internet are
most likely the demographic without fixed buying habits.  Meaning, the
demographic that all companies want to advertise to.

Advertisements from orgs are wasted on old farts like me who already 
have our IPv4 and who have been around to have established buying 
preferences.

But they aren't wasted on young pups just getting online for the first
time who have no established preferences.  Those young pups are just 
getting computers for the first time, just getting service for the first
time, etc.  They will be on IPv6.  And advertisers will want to go to
them.  And content providers paid by those advertisers will want to go
to them.  So they will go to IPv6 since that's where those target 
markets will be at.

You can fence yourself in but you can never fence the world out.

Ted

>      Brian