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Re: AT&T UVERSE Native IPv6, a HOWTO

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Mon Dec 2 23:22:09 2013

Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 22:21:45 -0600
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <wpiX1m00h1Una3W01piYAD>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On 12/2/2013 7:41 PM, Scott Weeks wrote:
>
>
> --- owen@delong.com wrote:
> From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
>
> I actually tend to doubt it. All of the people I've talked to from the major
> operators have said that the charges in IPv4 were not a revenue source, they
> were an effort to discourage the consumption of the addresses and/or the use
> of static addresses and to try and recover the costs of dealing with them in
> cases where customers were willing to pay.


Do you know to what charity they donate everything in excess of their costs?


-- 
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                                         of System Administrators:
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                                         learn from their mistakes.
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