Aaron, I’ll make sure someone follows up on your ticket. To help accelerate overall IPv6 adoption, we stopped charging for new conversions to IPv6 over a year ago. Probably just some misinformation in the sales force from the old policy...
Feel free to reach out directly to me if you end up needing more help. Thanks, - Noam On Aug 18, 2014, at 12:38 PM, Aaron Hopkins <li...@die.net> wrote: > Is it normal to bill for IPv6 service as a separate product? I was > surprised to hear from from my Akamai rep they they do: > >> Hi Aaron, We can add the IPV6 service to the contract at an additional >> cost of $XXX/month. Please let me know if you would like to go ahead with >> the service and I can create the contract and send it for your review. > > I've been working on adding IPv6 support to my current project on my own > time, and am now ready to enable it. But as soon as there is a recurring > cost associated with IPv6 support, I need to be able to justify it. And I'm > afraid that I can't currently explain a benefit of enabling IPv6 for our > users. I'll likely end up not doing so while we're still an Akamai > customer. > > It's Akamai's network, so it's their choice. But big players adding > friction to enabling IPv6 certainly doesn't seem in everyone's best > interests in the long-term. > > -- Aaron
