[155293] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IPv6 End User Fee
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jimmy Hess)
Fri Aug 3 22:09:05 2012
In-Reply-To: <5FE1FB6D43B8A647BBC821840C1AEA8B017C12@ocsbs.ocosa.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2012 21:08:17 -0500
From: Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com>
To: "Otis L. Surratt, Jr." <otis@ocosa.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 8/3/12, Otis L. Surratt, Jr. <otis@ocosa.com> wrote:
> Anyone charging end users for IPv6 space yet? :p
>
ISPs already charge for bandwidth link capacity. Why charge a fee to
discourage subscribers from adopting a protocol that will let the ISP
sell larger capacity links?
IPv6 packet headers are 40 bytes length, Versus IPv4 headers which
were ~20 bytes.
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-JH
