Re: IPv6 Thought Experiment

[William Herrin <bill () herrin us>]

On Wed, Oct 2, 2019 at 9:33 AM Antonios Chariton <daknob.mac () gmail com>
wrote:

> What if, globally, and starting at January 1st, 2020, someone (imagine a
> government or similar, but with global reach) imposed an IPv4 tax. For
> every IPv4 address on the Global Internet Routing Table, you had to pay a
> tax. Let’s assume that this can be imposed, must be paid, and cannot be
> avoided using some loophole. Let’s say that this tax would be $2, and it
> would double, every 3 or 6 months.

Hi Antonios,

Folks already pay a "tax" for IPv4 addresses. For example, in AWS you pay
$0.005/hr ($3.60/month) for an "elastic IP address" while the /56 of
globally routable IPv6 addresses in your VPC are completely free.


What do you think would happen? Would it be the only way to reach 100% IPv6
> deployment, or even that wouldn’t be sufficient?

Absolutely nothing that hasn't already happened, except perhaps annoy
people in fresh ways. You don't have a mass-market Internet service without
an IPv4 address, you do have one without an IPv6 address, and managing and
securing both requires high-skill manpower which is one of your
organization's highest-cost assets. No nominal tax or fee will ever be
enough to weigh meaningfully in that cost.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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