Re: [dhcwg] We can change the world in a 1000 ways (IPv4 over IPv6)

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> > Neither of the two monopoly providers in my neighborhood supports that
> > service at all except as a 'business' package costing several hundred
> > dollars a month extra.
>
> Pricing can be very different, I get up to 5 fixed IPv4 addresses at
> about 3$/month extra. This means it is only a money machine, actual cost
> is less than the 3$. This makes me wonder if it is a task of the IETF to
> provide a money machine to ISPs?

- It is the RIRs, not IETF, that determine how much ISPs can charge
for IP addresses.

- It sounds like you're saying that those 5 fixed addresses are *not*
worth $36 per year. In that case - have you considered how much you
think they *are* worth, and whether you can vote with your wallet and
switch to a different ISP?

- I have no idea what is the real cost to the ISP of those 5 addresses,
but pretty obviously it's not 0. Presumably the ISP is in the business
to make money. Are you saying that the ISP is making an *unreasonable*
profit charging for fixed IP addresses?

Disclaimer: Working for a service provider that only offers dynamic
addresses to residential customers.

Steinar Haug, AS 2116