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RE: Akamai charges for IPv6 support?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mehmet Akcin)
Mon Aug 18 13:02:13 2014

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To: Aaron Hopkins <lists@die.net>
From: Mehmet Akcin <mehmet@akcin.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 09:56:24 -0700
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I meant to ask. Did you ask akamai why they would be charging for ipv6? Is =
there any logical reason other than just wanting to make little more money,=
 that makes them have to charge for ipv6? =20

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From: "Aaron Hopkins" <lists@die.net>
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Subject: RE: Akamai charges for IPv6 support?

On Mon, 18 Aug 2014, Mehmet Akcin wrote:

> What did they say when you asked them(Akamai)?

I quoted their response in my mail; sorry if that wasn't clear.  They
offered to enable IPv6 service for a non-trivial monthly recurring fee,
which they offered to send me a revised contract to include.

> I would imagine ipv6 to be included in price not an additional fee.

I was surprised to find that wasn't the case.

                                     -- Aaron

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