This reminds me of a conversation I had with the AC repairman last year.
Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon.
The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in.
I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became cheaper to just get a new unit rather than fill up an old unit with freon."
I would imagine that as the price of IPv4 addresses crosses some threshold, people will just start going to IPv6.
As Michael Crichton once said in one of his books: "There was no subsidy that caused people to switch from horses to cars". They were just cheaper and easier to operate.
Backstory: we have an old AC unit that uses freon.
The repairman mentioned that freon is no longer available for new AC units. I asked if you could still buy freon and he said yes, existing supplies were grandfathered in.
I then commented that the price of freon must have sky-rocketed and he said: "yes, it did for a while but then it became cheaper to just get a new unit rather than fill up an old unit with freon."
I would imagine that as the price of IPv4 addresses crosses some threshold, people will just start going to IPv6.
As Michael Crichton once said in one of his books: "There was no subsidy that caused people to switch from horses to cars". They were just cheaper and easier to operate.