Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
Tim Franklin
tim at pelican.org
Thu Jul 29 21:44:45 UTC 2010
Jeroen Massar wrote:
>> See my earlier comments on "upsell" and "control". While you
>> have some ISPs starting from the mentality that gives us "accepting
>> incoming connections is a chargeable extra", they're also going
>> to be convinced that there's a revenue opportunity in segmenting
>> customers who want N of some resource from those who want 2N, 4N, ...
>> That the resource in question is, for all practical purposes, both
>> free and infinite (cue someone with a 'tragedy of the commons'
>> analysis) does not factor - if they want more, they must pay more!
>
> Ever thought about this tiny thing called BANDWIDTH USAGE?
[snip]
> Thus don't charge folks for the amount of IP addresses they have, that
> is not what you get charged for by your transit/peers either.
Apologies - again, my sarcasm doesn't travel well. I don't think
selling IP addresses is a good idea - it's an idea I hit against and get
annoyed by in the IPv4 world that I expect at least some ISPs to try and
perpetuate into the IPv6 world.
Regards,
Tim.
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