On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 07:52:19PM +0800, Adrian Chadd wrote: > 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.
RIPE is a couple thousands Euros to be an LIR which gets you all the IPs you need.. $1/yr is like 8c/month - well into the realm of being sunk into the cost when you provide a hosting service or DSL line. Its close enough to zero to be lost in the overheads of any business operation. Now, if you suddenly charge $2.50/mo to have a public IP or $15/mo for a /28 it does become a consideration to the customer as to if they _REALLY_ need it Steve
