Only 5x IPv4 /8 remaining at IANA

Fri Oct 22 12:05:23 UTC 2010

On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Owen DeLong <owen at delong.com> wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Joe Maimon wrote:
>> Matthew Petach wrote:
>>
>>> So...uh...who's going to be first to step up and tell their customers
>>> "look, you get a v6 /56 for free with your account, but if you want
>>> v4 addresses, it's going to cost an extra $50/month." ??
>>>
>>> Matt
>>>
>>
>> Either the telephone company or the cable company. Probably both. Give me a harder one.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>
> ROFL, Comcast is already telling their residential customers that if they want a static
> IPv4 address it will cost them an extra ~$60/month.
>
> (Delta between residential and business: ~$55/month, single static IPv4 address on business circuit: $5/month)
>
> Owen

*sigh*

But what's the delta for getting the equivalent IPv6 resource?
You're comparing apples to oranges.

If comcast says "you get a static /56 of v6 for free, but a static v4
address costs $55/month",
then I can see you point.

But right now, the delta is between dynamic v4 (free) and static v4 ($55),
with no delta between dynamic v4 (free) and dynamic v6 (free), and no
option that I've seen for static v4 ($55) vs static v6 ($???).

It's those last two cases that would drive the deprecation of v4 over time; and
*that* is the step I don't foresee any provider wanting to do; certainly, not
being first up to the plate to do.

Matt