Why you shouldn't worry about IPv6 just yet

[Brian E Carpenter]

Ted,

On 2010-08-21 09:29, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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> 
> On 8/20/2010 1:45 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
>> On 2010-08-21 08:15, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
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>>> 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?

True. But then the new ISP won't get the business, and its competitor
who has v6 will. At least, that's the theory. So ISPs should worry...

    Brian
> 
> 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
>