On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Fred Baker wrote: > At 01:05 PM 11/22/04 -0500, Richard Shockey wrote: > >Yes Fred I would _expect_ my ISP to sell me a /64 but at what price? It > >continues to amaze me that no one discussing the IP V6 adoption issues > >will focus attention on the obvious question ..what is it going to cost me? > > Is there any way the engineer can predict that or control it? > > What the architecture has made exceedingly clear is that the ISP can't > expect to dole out /128 prefixes, and has no incentive to. It could state > that it wants to only do address autoconfiguration on its interfaces, and > it could watch its customers vote with their feet. ISPs aren't that stupid, > I don't think. They understand what Linksys has done with their market. The fact that some European providers have been allocated a /20 shows they have a plan to allocate /48's to millions of customers; ap lan at least convincing enough to the RIR. So certainly not a /128, and probably not a /64 :) -- Tim _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf