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Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course


From: Tim Franklin <tim () pelican org>
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:32:57 +0000 (GMT)

Why waste valuable people's time to conserve nearly valueless
renewable resources?

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!

Regards,
Tim.


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