On 12/11/14 1:14 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> On Dec 10, 2014, at 23:11 , joel jaeggli <joe...@bogus.com> wrote: >> >> On 12/10/14 7:45 PM, Justin M. Streiner wrote: >>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2014, Yucong Sun wrote: >>> >>>> It is not the same thing though. In my case, they just say we want >>>> you to >>>> buy our IP, if you don't and want use you own Arin allocated IP blocks >>>> through bgp, then we got to charge you anyway! >>> Are they charging per /24 (assuming IPv4 here...), or per prefix? >>> >>> If they are charging per /24, that seems like a great way to encourage >>> customers to find another provider. >>> >>> If they are charging per prefix, that seems like an interesting way to >>> encourage customers to make sure they aggregate their BGP >>> advertisements as much as possible. >>> >> ISPs in my experience have a fee schedule supported by a model which >> allows them to recover their expenses plus a nominal profit. If the >> model doesn't work, in the long run that is a problem that solves >> itself. At the right scale I have productive leverage against the profit >> side of that number and also what line items the expenses are lodged >> against. below that I'm a retail customer and I pick from the best >> options available to me. >>> jms >>> >> > To me this sounds like they are trying to encourage their customers to accept > IP addresses from them in order to bolster their utilization for purposes of > hoarding addresses. I would expect that they will later reverse these > "incentives" to attempt to reclaim the space in order to avoid having to go > to the transfer market for more space. > > I would consider such behavior highly unethical at best, but my sense of > ethics may not be shared by all. I'm sure some of the Randians on this list > will tell me that this is some proper and good way for the economy to work. > Free market, blah blah.
I think it's a really good idea to not engage in business with people whose behavior strikes you as bad. > > > Owen > >
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