Jeroen Massar wrote:
See my earlier comments on "upsell" and "control". While you have some ISPs starting from the mentality that gives us "accepting incoming connections is a chargeable extra", they're also going to be convinced that there's a revenue opportunity in segmenting customers who want N of some resource from those who want 2N, 4N, ... That the resource in question is, for all practical purposes, both free and infinite (cue someone with a 'tragedy of the commons' analysis) does not factor - if they want more, they must pay more!
Ever thought about this tiny thing called BANDWIDTH USAGE?
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Thus don't charge folks for the amount of IP addresses they have, that is not what you get charged for by your transit/peers either.
Apologies - again, my sarcasm doesn't travel well. I don't think selling IP addresses is a good idea - it's an idea I hit against and get annoyed by in the IPv4 world that I expect at least some ISPs to try and perpetuate into the IPv6 world. Regards, Tim.