I hope the engineers in the organization will just tell their marketing folk that it's not possible to hand out just one IPv6 address. "Our hardware doesn't support it."
I think there's still room for ISPs to charge $10/month for a static prefix, though. And that's technically possible. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smith [mailto:na...@85d5b20a518b8f6864949bd940457dc124746ddc.nosense.org] Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2011 5:30 PM To: Brandon Ross Cc: NANOG list Subject: Re: Is NAT can provide some kind of protection? On Sat, 15 Jan 2011 18:06:06 -0500 (EST) Brandon Ross <br...@pobox.com> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2011, Brian Keefer wrote: > > > Actually there are a couple very compelling reasons why PAT will > > probably be implemented for IPv6: > > You are neglecting the most important reason, much to my own disdain. > Service providers will continue to assign only a single IP address to > residential users unless they pay an additional fee for additional > addresses. How do you know - have you asked 100% of the service providers out there and they've said unanimously that they're only going to supply a single IPv6 address? > Since many residential users won't stand for an additional > fee, pressure will be placed on CPE vendors to include v6 PAT in their > devices. > > -- > Brandon Ross AIM: BrandonNRoss > ICQ: 2269442 > Skype: brandonross Yahoo: BrandonNRoss >