Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

[Tim Franklin <tim () pelican org>]

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.