<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 12, 2005, at 12:13 PM, Steve Atkins wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I also don't think that it's a perceived scarcity of addresses - I</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">think Joe User sees that it's because the consumer ISPs don't want</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">servers running on consumer accounts because they can charge more for</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">accounts that do allow servers. Dynamically assigning addresses to</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">always-on connections (and to a lesser extent creative port blocking)</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">are primarily for product differentiation, and I think that's pretty</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">well understood by Joe User. I've not even heard an ISP claim that</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">dynamic assignments are due to scarcity of addresses since the</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">days of pay-per-minute dialup.</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR><DIV>However, this is the argument that Joe developing country enterprise sometimes hears from his locally dominant LIR, who would prefer that Joe not multihome. This, in turn, is a significant factor contributing to the popular perception(s) that IPv4 is nearing exhaustion, and that the current nested arrangements for allocation/assignment control are unfair.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>TV</DIV></BODY></HTML>