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What really needs to happen is the various RIRs need to expedite this process by making v6 extremely cheap or free, and making v4 prohibitively expensive. They
by iloveponies 16y ago
What really needs to happen is the various RIRs need to expedite this process by making v6 extremely cheap or free, and making v4 prohibitively expensive. They will cop flack for it, but this is the bitter pill that needs swallowing.
- wmf 16y agoIPv6 addresses are already free or nearly free. I think there's an important difference between scarcity naturally driving up IPv4 prices which encourages IPv6 adoption and artificially raising IPv4 prices to strong-arm people to switch to IPv6 because it's "good for them".
- tptacek 16y agoThe problem with IPv4 addresses TODAY is that they're artificially priced. People deliberately do stupid things with their addresses (like, assigning permanent routable /32's to every computer in a dorm resnet) so they can avoid having to justify and possibly lose their vanity /16's.