[6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?

[JORDI PALET MARTINEZ]

Clearly those ISPs that charge for every address, will need to switch the business model, if they want to win new customers, or even
keep the existing users !

Charging for every IPv6 address, must be forbidden, hopefully soon by the RIRs policy.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jørgen Hovland" <jorgen@hovland.cx>
To: "Jeroen Massar" <jeroen@unfix.org>
Cc: <6bone@ISI.EDU>
Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 1:56 AM
Subject: RE: [6bone] Is minimum allocation /64 now?


> 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
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