All,
> > You pay your provider per traffic volume or bandwidth. Not per IP > address. At least non I know of. They will give you as much addresses > you need. Now if you still want to put the globally unique addresses > behind a NAT, you are free to. But it's a bad idea. The addresses given > to you from your provider are not private. > I know of almost no US providers that don't currently charge for IPv4 address space. Absent some regulation, there is no reason to believe that they will stop charging for IPv6 address space no matter how freely the bits are made available to them. It would be great if ISPs would charge for bandwidth only but that simply isn't the way the world currently works and there is absolutely nothing about IPv6 that will change that. More bits in the address don't mean diddly if the only way to get the bits is through an oligarchy of ISPs. Tim Hartrick Mentat Inc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
