At 2:01 PM +0100 7/26/07, Stephen Wilcox wrote: >well, the empirical data which is confirmed here is saying that those 10% are >burning most of the v4 addresses and we are not seeing them rollout v6 whether >they 'need to' or not
Wow... you mean that they're not announcing general IPv6 availability two years before they have to? I'm so surprised. ;-) >so you sound right in theory, but in practice your data doesnt show that is >occuring and it also suggests those 10% are actively supporting 'the wall' >approach. The number of major backbone operators looking into IPv6 is already quite high, and will likely approach 100%. The alternative is carriers having to explain to the analyst community that they lack a business plan for new data customer growth once large IPv4 blocks are no longer generally available. /John
