[AusNOG] Less than 10% of IPv4 Addresses Remain Unallocated

[McDonald Richards]

I prefer to think of charging for a static IP something that is done for 
the following reasons:

- Static entry in my routing table for your /32 as opposed to the single 
shared entry for a block (/24 or larger).
- 24/7 consumption of what could be a shared resource (some people still 
turn their PCs off at night).
- The administrative effort of assigning it and modifying reverse DNS 
etc if requested.
- If it costs you slightly more, you WILL hand it back when you're done 
with it.

As for having an IPv6 allocation for life - they aren't exactly portable 
so I guess it's a good way to retain a customer. I dread to think what 
our router CPUs and TCAMs will look like if we ever let people "port" 
their IP space the same way they do phone numbers......

Macca



Kevin Karp wrote:
>  >I mean, talking about ripping off end users more money because they 
> use ipv4 like Skeeve brought up, pleaaseeeee,
>
> Don't know about the ripping off part but aren't ISP's already charging 
> more for using IPv4?
>
> If I want to add a static fixed IPv4 address to an existing connectivity 
> plan (that is convert the dynamically allocated address to a static one) 
> just about every ISP (please, someone raise the exceptions) will put me 
> onto a "Business Account" of some description at an extra charge, yet...
>
>  From a whole host of places I can obtain a static fixed IPv6 address 
> for.... free, no charge, nada, zippo or any other colloquialism you choose.
>
> Courtesy of IPv6Now, 7500 school students using Studentnet each have 
> their own static fixed IPv6 address allocated to them. And that's today, 
> right now, as we speak. Plus there is no plan to recover them even after 
> they graduate from their schools (as is happening, for the first time, 
> this year in 2010, for 2009's year 12 kids) - the 2009 graduates will 
> not be charged for their IPv6 addresses - now or in the future..
>
> So static IPv4 address=pay more, and static IPv6 address=pay nothing.
>
> Call it what you will but that's the reality right now - how is that not 
> paying more for using IPv4?
>
> Regards
>
> Kevin Karp
> PPS Internet
>
>
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