Geoff Huston writes: Many views of the transition to IPv6 assume
that the combination of the factors of the imminent exhaustion of the
unallocated pool of IPv4 addresses and the conventional dynamics of an
open competitive marketplace in the ISP sector will be sufficient to
propel the transition to IPv6. The question I would like to pose here
is: Is this an appropriate view of the transition to IPv6? An
alternative view is that this transition to IPv6 has already stalled
over the past decade, and we should be prepared to view the current
situation as an instance of a "market failure" in economic terms, where
the transition will require the impetus of some form of response
associated with the distribution of a "public good", and that
conventional market dynamics are in and of themselves incapable of
sustaining such a transition.
To read this article by Geoff Huston in full, see his blog at:
www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2009-09/v6trans.html
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