On 21/11/2021 12:15, Brandon Butterworth wrote: > v4 was not scary at $10 a few years ago, $40 is getting more scary > and as supply dries up so it gets over $100 that's probably the ISPs > margin for the first year or more of service.
+1 Even with address sharing** then the value of an IPv4 address - in lease revenue, which is *directly* influenced by the cost of acquiring more on the open market - makes it very difficult to include as part of a low-margin product. Debogonising 127/8, 0/8, 224/4 - or whatever someone else comes up with later - isn't helping anyone, except those already gaming the RIRs to lease the space out (and/or sell it later on). ** Even cheap CGNAT is $>0/subscriber. IPv6 bits are already cheaper than IPv4 bits, and will continue to be. It's already annoying me that we'll all probably need to have a dwindling number of NAT64 gateways for the next few decades. -- Tom
