<html><head/><body><html><head></head><body>+1.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: monospace; margin-top: 0px"><br />On Oct 28, 2012, at 11:25 AM, Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;">I'd like to state for the record that I would officially support a policy proposal that offered a discount period for IPv6 registrations in order to increase uptake.</blockquote><br />…except that we tried that experiment for, what, eight or ten years? So if people weren't motivated by the discount-all-the-way-to-free, nor by the phasing-out of the discount over several years, do you really think they'd be motivated by it being discounted _again_, when they weren't the first time?<br /><br />Essentially, I'm tired of special corner cases that are created to satisfy theoretical demands that might or might not exist on the part of hypothetical third parties. Our policies ar
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with such loopholes, and our pricing was as well. This pricing doesn't entirely fix the problem, but it certainly makes a good step in the right direction.<br /><br />It doesn't fix the ridiculously-large volume discounts, but it makes a step in the right direction.<br /><br />It doesn't get rid of the ISP/end-user distinction, but it makes a step in the right direction.<br /><br />-Bill<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />ARIN-Consult<br />You are receiving this message because you are subscribed to the ARIN Consult Mailing<br />List (ARIN-consult@arin.net).<br />Unsubscribe or manage your mailing list subscription at:<br /><a href="http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult">http://lists.arin.net/mailman/listinfo/arin-consult</a> Please contact the ARIN Member Services<br />Help Desk at info@arin.net if you experience any issues.<br /></pre></blockquote></div><br>
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