[155286] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 End User Fee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Seth Mattinen)
Fri Aug 3 18:45:22 2012
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2012 15:44:38 -0700
From: Seth Mattinen <sethm@rollernet.us>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <23A5C997-B61E-41C0-9D7B-F2A48FD45682@systeminplace.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/3/12 3:42 PM, William Pitcock wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Aug 3, 2012, at 2:22 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?
>
> If revenue from IPv4 assignments is an issue, then the solution is to adjust your business model to not depend on that revenue. As an ISP, the business is to ship bits around.
>
To that end I've never charged for IPv4, either.
~Seth
