On Wed, Jul 25, 2007, Stephen Wilcox wrote: > > Lack of IPv4 addresses will put the brakes on growth of the Internet > > which will have a major impact on revenue growth. Before long stock > > market analysts are going to be asking tough questions, and CEOs are > > suddenly going to see the IPv6 light. > > What exactly will cease to grow tho? The 4 billion IPs that have always been > around will continue to be. I think you overestimate the effects.. > > All the existing big businesses can operate with what they already have, > Google and Yahoo are not going to face any sort of crisis for the foreseeable > future. And as I've been saying for a while and Randy put in his > presentation, supply and demand will simply cause the cost of having public > IPs to go up from zero to something tiny - enough to see IPs being put back > into the pool to those who really need them.
I'm not sure what your definition of "really tiny" is, but out here IPs are a dollar or two each a year from APNIC. I'm sure ARIN's IP charges aren't $0.00. Adrian
