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The Disruptive Protocol
This chapter discusses one of the greatest challenges facing IPv6: market
acceptance. That this problem is economic rather than technical may be
surprising, but as technologies and the markets for them mature, those
markets start to behave just like any other commodity market. As founders
of so many Internet companies discovered in the first year or so of this
decade, it is just not possible to build a sustainable business unless the
business generates more in revenue than it costs to run.
At the same time, every once in a while the big companies manage to
miss out on a key new technology because it doesn’t fit into any exist- ...