> It seems to me that these two can't both be true. IP Addresses cannot at > once be scarce enough to charge for and non-scarce enough that > scarcity is > a non-issue.
Fred, scarcity is not the point. Differential pricing is. ISPs need a way to charge vastly different prices for "business" and "consumer" access. Or, in other words, they need a way to devalue consumer access to be able to continue charging more for business access. One dynamic vs. multiple static addresses gives them that way. That's all -- no scarcity needed. (Though it's convenient to have a "technical" reason to explain this business decision.) Gruesse, Carsten
