[Fice]

The real reason for low adoption of IPv6 is that it would decrease demand in hosting and clould services at least for personal use as everyone will be able to access their home computers from everywhere. Service providers does not want IPv6.

[alyrik]

Interesting point, that... Addresses being scarce and valuable would play into the hands of large ISPs who already have a lot of addresses! Discuss! :-)

[ch0wn]

That's already reality. In March Microsoft bought a block pof IPv4 addresses for about 7.5 Million USD: http://www.dotspress.com/microsoft-buys-ipv4-addresses/77150...