Re:Similar to climate change (Score 1)

Good points, or what is the business case for solving world hunger, or the fact that 3,000 people die every day because they don't have clean water, or putting an end to the war in Iraq? The simple fact is that the Internet is a global thing, and 15% of the world has access to the current IPv4 network, and 85% of the world does not. It is unfortunate IMHO that the thoughts and positions of three individuals quoted in the interview were dramatically misrepresented, but then on the other hand the posting certainly has generated some discussion amongst the tech community. Now if we could get this same type of discussion going in the public policy community. Much like Al Gore did when he "invented the Internet" and came up with the concept of the Information Super Highway. Try taking the Internet away from anybody who has learned how to use it and see how successful you will be. Do you think the 85% of the world that does not have will forever not want it? I live in California, I need to get to NY for a meeting. Yes, I could go in my garage and get my bicycle out and start peddling to NY, or I could go online and buy a ticket on JetBlue. Just because I can do something for a short period of time doesn't necessarily mean that I should. How foolish would I feel and how much regret would I have choosing the ride my bike scenario if four weeks into my journey I get to the Mississippi River and see a sign that says, "NO BIKES ALLOWED EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER"? All that time and energy spent and I didn't even get to my destination. Getting back to the 85% of the worlds population that does not have access to the Internet and the business case. 99% of the business in the world are NOT enterprise based businesses. They are small entrepreneurial business with not more than a few people involved as employees. WASHINGTON, D.C. - Small business continues to drive the United States economy, according to a report issued today by the Office of Advocacy of the U.S. Small Business Administration. Newly released data show that in 2005, small businesses represented 99.7 percent of all the nationâ(TM)s employer businesses. Data also show that they employed 57.4 million Americans or 50.6 percent of the non-farm private sector workforce. And small businesses employ well over 60% of the worlds working population. These are folks that are not not concerned with enterprise solutions. That means there are are probably well over one billion businesses in the world today operating not using the Internet. You are not going to easily NAT your way into adding a billion more users on to the Internet network. Do you not think that the world would be a more productive and efficient place if they did use the Internet? The tide rises for all boats. There is your business case for the transition to the New Internet based on IPv6.