Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

[John Stracke]

Daniel Senie wrote:

> Some folks are doing this for dialups too.  It's the model for

> "home networking" today. Will ISPs be willing to assign a block of
> addresses in the future to home networks?

Today, they are not, because they want to make that a premium service.
However, one day, they may realize that the reason their customers aren't
buying that premium service is that they don't need it; they're using NATs
instead.  If IPv6 becomes common, and ISPs don't have to hoard addresses,
offering subnets as part of the basic service could become a good point of
competition.

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