Scott Leibrand writes: > They can charge for IPv4 addresses because they're perceived to be scarce. > With IPv6 they may be able to charge for allowing me a /48 instead of a > /56 or /64, but IMO they won't be able to assign me a /128 by default and > charge me if I want a /64. They will charge you for every address beyond one. Wait and see. BTW, giving out /64s is one reason why the IPv6 address space will be exhausted in barely more time than was required to exhaust the IPv4 address space. > Then I will switch ISPs. They will all be doing it. > ARIN guidelines specifically require ISPs to give out larger blocks when > requested. If any ISPs try to be hard-nosed about it and give out /128's > anyway, it will be pretty easy to pressure & shame them sufficiently that > they'll feel it in the marketplace. How? I haven't been able to pressure or shame my ISP into setting rDNS correctly for my IP address. In fact, nobody at my ISP knows what that means. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf