[LINK] IPv6 doomed

[Kim Davies]

Quoting Glen Turner on Monday August 25, 2008:
>> Quoting Kim Holburn on Sunday August 24, 2008:
>> | | They could always claw back the big class A's and class B's and 
>> break  | them up and give some of them to India, Japan or China ;-)
>
> It is anticipated that the current Region Internet Registry rules will
> change to allow arbitrary IP address space transfers. So if you hold
> a underused /16 then you'll have a financial incentive to sell it to
> someone else. [Obviously there are issues with such a market -- it
> doesn't meet the usual rules required for a "free market"]

If a marketplace is introduced then of course the dynamics will
change. But that would be through willing participants trading their
allocations, not through "clawing back" address space that is unused.

> Also, the amount of IPv4 space required will fall. The increased price
> will lead to the deployment of Network Address Translation within the
> ISPs themselves. [Noting that this allows the ISP to control the applications
> running on the network, and perhaps differentially bill for them].

Of course, this is not something inherent to NAT, and one presumes they
could do this anyway...

kim