5 Sep
2026
5 Sep
'26
6:18 a.m.
On Fri, 4 Sept 2026 at 22:36, Kevin Tillery via NANOG <nanog@lists.nanog.org> wrote:
I'll be the contrarian here. Surely whether or not this is sane depends on the total price and surrounding circumstances. If a provider charges say $200 for a service, whether they itemize it as $200 connection, free BGP, free IPs; or $180 connection, $20 BGP, free IPs; or $1 connection, $9 BGP, $190 for IPs to run BGP on; is entirely up to them and makes little difference.
100% correct from an economist point of view when customers are of homo economicus who act in their best self-interest. But of course it is completely untrue in the real world with homo sapiens who can be easily gamed to act against their best self-interest. -- ++ytti