[6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?

[Jørgen Hovland]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Jeroen Massar wrote:

> If you want to sell 'single-user' products then count their
> bandwidth usage. Or are you getting your IP's from your transit provider?
> Transit providers charge you for bandwidth consumption.

There are ISP's already doing that and there are ISP's totally against
it.

> So should you. If you have no intention of selling them internet access
> then why call yourself an ISP at all ?

There are people who do not feel charging by capacity is the proper way to
do it, but by the ammount of users. There are infact ISP's who do this
today.

> "single-user products" as you call it are the biggest reasons why
> we have those awfull NAT's today. And how many users are behind
> that NAT even though you just gave them 1 IPv4 address? LOTS.

There's a difference between denying a person extra ip addresses and
giving out a billion without asking if the person needs it.

Many ISP's charge for extra ip addresses, and they dont do it just because
they have to type in 3 commands on their router. NAT gives a certain ammount
of security for end-users.

Joergen Hovland ENK