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Feels like real estate. The move to IPv6 could be seen as a socialist land redistribution scheme, since it imposes a cost upon the entire system (by requiring n
by pc2g4d 10y ago
Feels like real estate. The move to IPv6 could be seen as a socialist land redistribution scheme, since it imposes a cost upon the entire system (by requiring network upgrades) in order to make cheap "real estate" continually available to the masses.
- phicoh 10y agoThere is no redistribution going on. Everybody who has IPv4 addresses now is free to keep them. If you want to compare to real estate, it is more like building a completely new city in the middle of nowhere. Initially the costs are high because you have to build new infrastructure. Initially, there is nobody there so there is no incentive to move to the new city. As the new city gets popular, everybody who has real estate in other cities may feel compelled to get real estate in the new city as well, but they don't have to give up their old property.
- pc2g4d 10y agoSo IPv6 is the Brasilia of Internet real estate :-)