[AusNOG] Prediction: Google et. al. may artificially penalise IPv4 clients

[Matt Palmer]

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 10:02:56AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote:
> In message <CAO42Z2xo8cDu7_hQC9FoHftMRfWHUttJWvANOh0adV3bRK6Tag at mail.gmail.com>, Mark Smith writes:
> > Came across this tweet this morning, which is suggesting that Google
> > just purchased a /12 from Merit Network.
> > 
> > https://twitter.com/atoonk/status/858473247368593408
> > 
> > 
> > The cost per IPv4 address has been in the order of $10 each, so that
> > is a purchase in the order of $10M.
> 
> I don't think it actually costs Google that much to be dual stack
> over IPv4 only.

It just cost 'em $10M.

- Matt