Re: IPv6 and CDN's

[Mark Tinka <mark@tinka.africa>]

On 10/22/21 18:08, tim () pelican org wrote:

> I don't think it'll ever make money, but I think it will reduce costs.  CGNAT boxes cost money, operating them costs money, 
> dealing with the support fallout from them costs money.  Especially in the residential space, where essentially if the customer calls 
> you, ever, you just blew years' worth of margin.

The problem is accurately modelling cost reduction using native IPv6 in 
lieu of CG-NAT is hard when the folk that need convincing are the CFO's.

They are more used to "spend 1 to get 2". Convincing them to "save 2 by 
spending 1" - not as easy as one may think.

Mark.