New perspectives on the IPv6 transition

Despite it being more than a decade old, and nearly two decades since the problems with IPv4 were first identified, IPv6 still has not diffused significantly through the Internet. Policies advocating market forces to promote IPv6 diffusion are widespread, and thus this paper examines IPv6 adoption f...

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Main Author: Dell, Peter
Other Authors: Gary Madden
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Curtin University of Technology 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15041
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description Despite it being more than a decade old, and nearly two decades since the problems with IPv4 were first identified, IPv6 still has not diffused significantly through the Internet. Policies advocating market forces to promote IPv6 diffusion are widespread, and thus this paper examines IPv6 adoption from the perspectives of Hotelling's aconomics of exhaustible resources and the economics of permit markets, concluding in both cases that significant IPv6 diffusion will not occur until after the IPv4 address space is exhausted. This outcome is not desirable, and therefore new policy alternatives must be debated.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-150412017-01-30T11:47:35Z New perspectives on the IPv6 transition Dell, Peter Gary Madden exhaustible resources IPv6 technology diffusion policy permit markets Despite it being more than a decade old, and nearly two decades since the problems with IPv4 were first identified, IPv6 still has not diffused significantly through the Internet. Policies advocating market forces to promote IPv6 diffusion are widespread, and thus this paper examines IPv6 adoption from the perspectives of Hotelling's aconomics of exhaustible resources and the economics of permit markets, concluding in both cases that significant IPv6 diffusion will not occur until after the IPv4 address space is exhausted. This outcome is not desirable, and therefore new policy alternatives must be debated. 2009 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15041 Curtin University of Technology fulltext
spellingShingle exhaustible resources
IPv6
technology diffusion
policy
permit markets
Dell, Peter
New perspectives on the IPv6 transition
title New perspectives on the IPv6 transition
title_full New perspectives on the IPv6 transition
title_fullStr New perspectives on the IPv6 transition
title_full_unstemmed New perspectives on the IPv6 transition
title_short New perspectives on the IPv6 transition
title_sort new perspectives on the ipv6 transition
topic exhaustible resources
IPv6
technology diffusion
policy
permit markets
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15041