On 11/12/2011, at 2:37 PM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > On Sat, 10 Dec 2011 20:48:45 EST, Barry Shein said: >>>> I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific >>>> area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their >>>> business the way they would like? >> >> This sniping elicited by the above seems inappropriate and >> unprofessional, the request/anecdote seemed reasonable and could >> elicit solutions such as partnerships, etc. > > No Barry, I respectfully disagree. It's almost 2012. The first predictions > of > IPv4 exhaustion were made *last century*. We've been predicting it to the > month level for like 5 years now. Any business that is making business plans > and models that doesn't take "we may not get IPv4 space" into account and have > a contingency plan for that *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in > public.
You could take this one step further and say any industry that has had this much warning and hasn’t taken it into account *deserves* to be soundly mocked and ridiculed in public.
