dynamic or static IPv6 prefixes to residential customers

Wed Aug 3 07:42:39 UTC 2011

On Aug 3, 2011, at 12:14 AM, sthaug at nethelp.no wrote:

>> 3) I think people do some of both. I think that if people can get static for the
>> 	same price, they will choose static over dynamic. I think that some
>> 	will even choose to use their dynamic to run tunnels where they
>> 	can get static. You can get free static tunnels for IPv6 today.
> 
> Experience from IPv4 suggests otherwise. We (as an ISP) normally hand
> out dynamic IPv4 addresses to residential customers, and static IPv4
> addresses to business customers. 
> 
> - We have plenty of business customers who *want* dynamic addresses,
> even if static is available as a standard part of their product.
> 
> - There are quite a few ISPs here that offer static IPv4 addresses to
> residential customers. Those ISPs haven't captured the whole market,
> strangely enough.
> 
> So I completely disagree with the claim that (all) people will choose
> static over dynamic if it is available at the same price. From my POV
> the market here clearly wants both options - and both are available.
> 
> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug at nethelp.no

Europe is a little odd in that way, especially DE and NO in that there seems
to be this weird FUD running around claiming that static addresses are
in some way more antithetical to privacy.

Owen

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