At 11:19 AM 11/28/2001 -0800, Fred Baker wrote:
I see a longish thread about the fact that some cable companies apparently
are desperate to charge per IP address (something one can only do if IP
addresses are in fact a scarce resource) and want to nullify a technology
that might mask the scarceness of that resource.
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.
Does anyone else see something schizoid about this discussion?
Fred,
I do not see the action of the cable companies to charge per IP
address. Even with plentiful addresses, they would want a model that got
them the most revenue. They would like to charge for each TV you connect
to the cable too, but the PSCs and FCC stop that. And that is what it will
take. Consumers taking this to the gov and getting rulings on acceptable
practice.
As much as I might like to think otherwise, IPv6 won't stop this
crazyness. Might even feed it.