Brian E Carpenter wrote:
The transition model in 1995 was based on the assumption
that vendors and ISPs would support dual stack globally
well *before* IPv4 exhaustion. The fact that this did
not happen is the problem.
Indeed. Unfortunately the NASDAQ went from ~800 in 1995 to peak at 5050
on March 10, 2000, leading everyone in the Internet thing for these 5
years to get used to unlimited money pouring from the sky. In the
economy at the time, the cost to dual-stack seemed bearable.
After it fell back below 2000 in 2001 and below 1500 in 2003, the game
changed. The ISP business model changed (at least the AOL-like model);
the customer business model changed too.
Today NASDAQ closed at 2401.91, less than half what it at peek was 10.5
years ago.
No bucks, no Buck Rogers.
Michel.
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