Why you shouldn't worry about IPv6 just yet

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

On 8/20/2010 3:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote:
> Ted,
>
> On 2010-08-21 09:29, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>

I guess I should avoid ending sentences with prepositions that I've
converted into verbs.

where your existing ISP isn't -located-?

And you only GET IPv6 from the new ISP

I think that would point the indication to that users DO have to
worry about IPv6.

Ted

> 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
>>