[60118] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: North America not interested in IP V6
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jack Bates)
Fri Aug 1 07:50:38 2003
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 06:47:46 -0500
From: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <7B5898BD5B4D8841B2AFC746EDD683B434A0CC@amfmx01.core.local>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Ben Buxton wrote:
> In europe, when any consumer gets a net connection it's sold as
> a pipe to do anything you want with (as long as it abides by laws
> and netiquette.
>
> It seems that this silly restrictive mentality will remain even with
> ipv6...
>
In the US, the pipe is limited in any number of ways in attempts to
limit how many people share their broadband with their neighbor at a
reduced rate.
Another issue is that handing out IP addresses to the home at this point
is foolish. User's, in general, can't protect themselves.
-Jack
