On 12/2/2013 7:41 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
--- owen@delong.com wrote: From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
I actually tend to doubt it. All of the people I've talked to from the major operators have said that the charges in IPv4 were not a revenue source, they were an effort to discourage the consumption of the addresses and/or the use of static addresses and to try and recover the costs of dealing with them in cases where customers were willing to pay.
Do you know to what charity they donate everything in excess of their costs? -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System Administrators: Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Infallibility, and the ability to learn from their mistakes. (Adapted from Stephen Pinker)