[125870] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Apr 25 16:28:11 2010
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:27:32 +0200 (CEST)
To: nanog@nanog.org
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <09627F14-557C-4FA0-8B52-BD1A444B18D5@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> > - Dynamic addresses is a way to differentiate residential customers
> > (who pay less) from business customers (who pay more).
> >
> Which is both specious and obnoxious.
It is a business choice, which you may or may not agree with.
> Given a choice between a provider which does this and one who does not, I will always choose the one that does not. Unfortunately, there is no PON vendor in my area, so I live with com cast business (on a dynamic IP because I refuse to pay their absurd mark-up on IP addresses). Given a PON vendor in my neighborhood, I'd drop Comcast in a heartbeat.
You can obviously vote with your wallet. In a market with rather thin
margins, where most residential customers are happy with dynamic
addresses, I find it entirely unsurprising that some companies would
like to differentiate between customers this way.
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
