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Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

Subject: Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it
From: Jeff McAdams
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 07:39:52 -0400
Mark Andrews wrote:
>> On Sep 13, 2007, at 12:05 AM, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
>>
>>>> I believe that a more constructive assessment is that enterprises are
>>>> unwilling to pay non-trivial costs to renumber, and ISPs are
>>>> unwilling to pay non-trivial costs to support a non-scalable routing
>>>> subsystem.
>>>     my persistent question to the enterprise operator is this:
>>>     how frequently do you plan to switch your isp, or how many times
>>>     did you do that in the past?

>> That's actually irrelevant.  Regardless of the real answer,  
>> enterprises are not willing to buy into vendor lock.

>       Except there really is no vendor lock anymore.  It is
>       possible to automate the entire renumbering process.  If
>       there are spots where it is not automated then they should
>       be found and fixed.

Oh man, that's rich.  Do you actually believe that?

I think you forgot to set your alarm clock and are living in that dream
world that I mentioned previously.
-- 
Jeff McAdams
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a
little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                                       -- Benjamin Franklin

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