[146801] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dynamic (changing) IPv6 prefix delegation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Bonomi)
Tue Nov 22 12:53:38 2011
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:53:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Robert Bonomi <bonomi@mail.r-bonomi.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <8484B33A-061C-494F-9DEB-4F8C1F1E4204@delong.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com> naively wrote:
>
> On Nov 22, 2011, at 7:38 AM, Joel Maslak wrote:
>
> > On Nov 22, 2011, at 8:05 AM, Ray Soucy <rps@maine.edu> wrote:
> >
> >> As long as a static allocation can be billed as a premium service,
> >> most providers will unfortunately do it.
> >
> > Exactly. ISPs are in business to make as much money as they can - go figure.
> >
>
> How do you make more money by refusing to meet customer requests?
>
By 'encouraging' those 'high cost / low profit' customers to 'go elsewhere',
and devoting the resources that they would otherwise consume to supporting
'lower-cost/ higher-profit' customers. This is 'no-brainer' free-market
economics. :)
