On Fri, Oct 02, 2015 at 08:28:13AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > In message <[email protected]>, Owen DeLong > writes: > > > > > On Oct 1, 2015, at 13:55 , Grzegorz Janoszka <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > > On 2015-10-01 20:29, Owen DeLong wrote: > > >> However, I think eventually the residential ISPs are going to start > > charging extra > > >> for IPv4 service. > > > > > > ISP's will not charge too much. With too expensive IPv4 many customers > > will migrate from v4/dual stack to v6-only and ISP's will be left with > > unused IPv4 addresses and less income. > > > > Nope… They’ll be left with unused IPv4 addresses which is not a > > significant source of income and they’ll be able to significantly reduce > > the costs incurred > > in supporting things like CGNAT. > > > > > Will ISP's still find other profitable usage for v4 addresses? If not, > > they will be probably be quite slowly rising IPv4 pricing, not wanting to > > overprice it. > > > > Probably they will sell it to business customers instead of the > > residential customers. However, we’re talking about relatively large > > numbers of customers > > for relatively small numbers of IPv4 addresses that aren’t producing > > revenue directly at this time anyway. > > > > > Even with $1/IPv4/month - what will be the ROI of a brand new home > > router? > > > > About 2.5 years at that price since a brand new home router is about $29. > > > > Owen > > The hard part is the internet connected TV's and other stuff which > fetches content over the internet which are IPv4 only despite being > released when IPv6 existed. These are theoretically upgradable to > support IPv6 so long as the manufactures release a IPv6 capable > image. The real question is will governments force them to do this. > > Upgrading the router is a no brainer. Upgrading the TV, games > consoles, e-readers, etc. starts to add up.
Just brand it as the new "6-D" TV with "128 bits of goodness to outperform your obsolete 32 bit TV!". Then people will flock to the stores to upgrade...
