John Calcote writes: > I'll just jump in here for a second and mention also that vendors > offer what they have to, not what they can. They want to provide the > most "bang for the buck", so to speak. These companies don't offer > the multiple-static-ip-address option today because most ISP's don't > offer it to home users and home (SOHO) users represent the target > market. It is unlikely that ISPs will ever offer static IPs or multiple IPs to home users at any time in the future for free. They will continue to charge heavy premiums for such "professional" features, with or without IPv6. > That said, they *would* offer these features if SOHO users > were constantly frustrated about the fact that they can't make use > of the multiple static addresses that their ISP provides them > because of limitations in their router equipment... SOHO users probably won't be willing to pay 500% more for multiple or static IPs, anyway. > The fact is, _when_ IPv6 becomes truly mainstream and ISP's begin > to offer multiple static addresses because they can ... ISPs can do that already, but they charge a great deal for it, and they probably always will. AT&T used to charge for any telephone color other than black, even though the cost of producing a telephone was the same no matter what color it was. _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf