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

[Sten Carlsen <[e-mail]>]

On 17/11/13 17.13, [e-mail] wrote:
>>> 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?
My point was that I use a cheap ISP, I also get the 5 IPs for a very
modest sum compared to the above "costing several hundred dollars a
month extra".

My second point was that if they make money on giving me the 5 IPs at
3$/month, the cost has to be lower. I do run all sorts of servers here,
no issues.
>
> - 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

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Best regards

Sten Carlsen

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