Roque,
On Jul 26, 2007, at 5:03 AM, Roque Gagliano wrote:
Two things, first big address consumption ISPs at the bigger RIR
regions
will not base their business plans on the possibility of getting
addresses at LACNIC or AFRINIC, they will transit to IPv6.
No they won't. They will do whatever is necessary to obtain the IPv4
address space they need to continue business.
You appear to be assuming the primary reason people haven't migrated
to IPv6 is because IPv4 is easily available. I do not believe this
to be the case. People haven't migrated because:
a) customers don't want IPv6 (nor do they want IPv4 -- they want "the
Web"/their pr0n, they don't care about the details).
b) migrating to IPv6 has real costs and because of (a), there are no
additional revenues to cover that cost.
c) they _can't_ migrate because their equipment/software vendors
don't yet support IPv6.
d) etc.
Rearranging where the IPv4 free pool sits isn't going to help things
all that much (although it might remove IANA as the target for
lawyers, thanks! :-)). Large scale ISPs have the resources to set up
offices in Latin America and Africa (and the resources, far more than
those NICs do, to bury the NICs under paperwork to justify their
requests). The folks who will lose are the smaller ISPs in the
regions served by the larger NICs who lack those resources. The
winners will be those with lots of IPv4 addresses.
Rgds,
-drc