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by Karrot_Kream 1615 days ago
That's because those "good netizen"s remember how hard it was to get the network connected/up and keep it running in the first place. After a while, the new entrants just become parties with the option of some cheap IPv4 blocks and ASNs. Then they see the value of these blocks/AS increase. Then they say "well I have mine and I get no increased value from IPv6 so who cares" and they stay put becoming FYGMs.

> That is how the Internet is supposed to work, through cooperation.

Unfortunately this just isn't scaling :( Thanks for doing your part, I hope we all do what we can.