[155282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 End User Fee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Ivey)
Fri Aug 3 18:38:05 2012
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:37:06 -0400
From: Derek Ivey <derek@derekivey.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <CAD6AjGQZGPmZqzQcocStFexsReAKc_gRZE7KuLNCsHDDhLNkxg@mail.gmail.com>
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If my ISP charged me fees for IPv6 space, I'd ditch them. They already
make enough money as is from modem/cable box rentals.
Derek
On 8/3/2012 6:12 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:22 PM, Otis L. Surratt, Jr. <otis@ocosa.com> wrote:
>> Anyone charging end users for IPv6 space yet? :p
>>
>> Just wondering, with so many IPv6 resources in a single allocation it
>> would seem difficult to charge anything at all.
>>
>> 1. How are you making up loss of revenue on IPv4 assignments?
>> 2. Are you charging anything?
>> 3. Is the cost built into the service?
>> 4. Do you assign IPv6 space to end user and charge admin fee?
>>
>> Take care,
>>
>> Otis
>>
> IPv6 users cost me less money (CGN resources), i wish i had a business
> method for giving them discounts and meaningful incentives for using
> IPv6.
>
> Today, my retail mobile phones users can have 1 NAT'd IPv4 address or
> 2^64 public IPv6 addresses + NAT64 to reach IPv4 destinations. Most
> don't use the IPv6 address option yet :(
>
> But the number of folks electing to use IPv6 is increasing with more
> phones available (4 Androids now support HSPA+ IPv6) and more IPv6
> awareness
>
> CB
>
