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<P><FONT SIZE=2>>Hi,<BR>
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>> ISPs will have to pay whatever the market demands until their -<BR>
>> customers- stop using<BR>
>> IPv4.<BR>
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>I suspect -customers- will have to pay whatever the market demands. <BR>
>ISPs will undoubtedly be happy to route prefixes provided to them by <BR>
>their customers for a (perhaps not so) nominal fee. Of course, this <BR>
>implies fragmenting prefixes and a surge in the amount of <BR>
>unaggregatable routing information being propagated back and forth <BR>
>(whether this is a real problem depends is an interesting ongoing <BR>
>debate).<BR>
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This is the real problem of the end-game IMO.... It is going to put added pressure on the route table and bring that very real problem to the fore.<BR>
Addressing is not broken nearly as bad as routing for the future.<BR>
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Blech.<BR>
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Rgds,<BR>
-drc<BR>
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