On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Owen DeLong <o...@delong.com> wrote: > On Oct 21, 2010, at 3:29 PM, Joe Maimon wrote: >> Matthew Petach wrote: >> >>> So...uh...who's going to be first to step up and tell their customers >>> "look, you get a v6 /56 for free with your account, but if you want >>> v4 addresses, it's going to cost an extra $50/month." ?? >>> >>> Matt >>> >> >> Either the telephone company or the cable company. Probably both. Give me a >> harder one. >> >> Joe >> > > ROFL, Comcast is already telling their residential customers that if they > want a static > IPv4 address it will cost them an extra ~$60/month. > > (Delta between residential and business: ~$55/month, single static IPv4 > address on business circuit: $5/month) > > Owen
*sigh* But what's the delta for getting the equivalent IPv6 resource? You're comparing apples to oranges. If comcast says "you get a static /56 of v6 for free, but a static v4 address costs $55/month", then I can see you point. But right now, the delta is between dynamic v4 (free) and static v4 ($55), with no delta between dynamic v4 (free) and dynamic v6 (free), and no option that I've seen for static v4 ($55) vs static v6 ($???). It's those last two cases that would drive the deprecation of v4 over time; and *that* is the step I don't foresee any provider wanting to do; certainly, not being first up to the plate to do. Matt