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Is there any money an ISP would make, or save, by sinking money and effort on switching to IPv6? If there's none, why would they act? If there is some, where?
by nine_k 1y ago
Is there any money an ISP would make, or save, by sinking money and effort on switching to IPv6? If there's none, why would they act? If there is some, where?
For instance, mobile phone operators, which had to turn ISPs a decade or two ago, had a natural incentive to switch to IPv6, especially as they grew. Would old ISPs make enough from selling some of their IPv4 pools?
- ROBLOX_MOMENTS 1y agoThey already lease them out. TELUS in Canada traditional old ISP rents large portion of their space to a mostly used for Chinese GFW VPN server provider in LA „Psychz“
- TZubiri 1y agoThe ISPs have to submit plans on how to use their IPs for the public,especially for IPv4, Arnic shouldn't approve this kind of stuff. Unless they lied in their ip block application, in which case they should be revoked their block.
- Braxton1980 1y agoI filled out one of these for Cogent to get a /24. I was being honest but all I had to put was services that requires their own IP. I even listed a few but no where near the 253. They also never responded back and were like "what about NAT" or "what about host based routing".
- TZubiri 1y agoNot sure what you filled out, but blocks are handed usually not to end users, but to providers that will sublease the ips to their client. So if you are asking for a block for a couple of your HTTP servers, that's a no. If you rent HTTP servers to, say, local small businesses, then that's a yes.
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- beeflet 1y agoless expensive IP space, more efficient hardware, and lower complexity if you can eliminate NAT.
- rendaw 1y agoPresumably they'd lose money when a DDoS originating from their network causes all their ips to get blocked.