Thank you, Ted, for following up. I appreciate the clarifications.

I would agree with you that the deployment of IPv6 is taking far longer than it should: there are a lot of organizations dragging their feet on that one. Similarly, I agree that the client edge of the major ISP networks are seriously under-provisioned. Overall your report isn’t unreasonable: like any analysis, there are aspects that are debatable, but that isn’t the issue.

I think the real issue is how what you report is being used. IIA and similar organizations are taking your analysis and using it to push for things like bandwidth capping and traffic shaping: *NOT* increasing capacity, but containing use. They are using your report as a bludgeon to hammer a very self-serving objective into place, and your firm isn’t doing anything to contradict them. It is obvious that the core of the network is not collapsing, and given that the most reasonable/fair/logical solution is to properly provision the edge of the network. Yet Nemertes Research says nothing, leaving the impression that the IIA and friends are merely stating your conclusions, not crafting their own.

To paraphrase Ben Franklin, if you lie with dogs you will rise up with fleas. And unfortunately that is the situation Nemertes Research is in.