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.
This probably comes down to the ARIN membership. Not all the world get their IP addresses from ARIN though...and for IPv6 most people don't.
- kurtis -
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