Re: Why people by NATs

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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

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