On Sep 10, 2021, at 13:22 , John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
It appears that Owen DeLong via NANOG <owen@delong.com> said:
This is my point… That is why I think an announcement of “On X date, we will begin charging extra for IPv4 services and define Internet Access to be IPv6” by a couple of the larger eyeball ISPs would light a pretty big fire under those laggards.
Indeed. They would send postcards to all their customers saying "Comcast has said they will cut off your access to Netflix on April 1, Call their president's office at 1-800-xxx-xxxx and tell them what you think."
Nope… Netflix is fully available on IPv6 and actually looks forward to ISPs doing this. Now Amazon might send post cards saying “Comcast has said that they will cut off your access to our store…”, but I suspect that the cost of such a campaign and the collateral damage would be well in excess of the cost of just adding IPv6 to their service. Owen