On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 14:11:19 +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:03 -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: >> Without solutions to these four problems on the horizon, I can't >> voice any enthusiasm that the larger address space in IPv6 will >> eliminate NAT in home or enterprise networks. > This really isn't a problem of the IETF. The problems is at the ISP's > who should charge for bandwidth usage and not for IP's. > It is all a financial problem, people earn money this way, and there is > not an easy way you can let them not make money. > Actually, can you blame them? I can't unfortunately... Arguably, if the ISPs handed out a (static) IP to every customer, soon they'd be out of IPs, and thus unable to grow their businesses from that perspective. --gregbo _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
