--- David Freedman <david.freedman@uk.clara.net> wrote:
I dont feel this sort of behaviour is helpful, I can understand asking for licensing fees for L2VPN/L3VPN technologies since these are products that service providers can levvy a reasonable charge for, but to charge for IPv6 routing capability alone, at the time where the discussion of which has never been so serious, leaves a bit of a bad taste in one's mouth.
Not all equipment vendors do this, and this could be used as a discriminator between them when selecting new equipment (or could be a spur toward considering different platforms when upgrading). -David Barak David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com ____________________________________________________________________________________ Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for today's economy) at Yahoo! Games. http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow