<nettime> ***SPAM*** Re: Welcome to the Internet - if you've missed the past

[morlockelloi@yahoo.com]

IPv4 is here to stay. The first consumer that gets IPv6-only line from 
ISP will find out that he/she cannot visit sites that did not convert to 
IPv6, and that would be the end of business for that ISP. This means 
that all servers that this consumer needs will have to convert *first* 
to IPv6, and there is little incentive for them to do so - there are 
more than enough IPv4 addresses for server colocations. Just got few 
hundred with no questions asked.

> After they have, in despair, removed most of these features and made
> IPv6 look and work almost exactly like IPv4, the same Internet community
> that previously told them that IPv6 changed too many things began
> complaining that the IPv6 protocol is insufficiently revolutionary and
> does not address some of the core challenges which would justify the
> large expense of a transition.  Unfortunately, by that time IPv4
> addresses largely ran out and a transition was necessary anyway.


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