ADSL

[Inda, Dennis]

That was really an interesting perspective, here's something more we can
throw around or chew on...
Right now people are really excited about getting on the web, so naturally
ISP's/cable/phone companies etc.. can cash in on providing connections to
the web, however, following the laws of economics, human wants are never
satisfied... What happens when people( esp. home consumers ) are maxed out
on surfing and now want to host their own web sites on their own web
servers, DHCP will not do.....so the competition will be, who can offer
static IP's at the lowest price!!! and even register your domain name for
you, host your DNS..and present you one bill. The classic business
requirements change; Now  the cycle begins again..there is a consumer rush
to obtain static IP's, only the companies that are ready can cash in..etc
etc.
Now the loopholes I was referring to are mainly infrastructure loops or at
least a contingency plan to change if users demand more. I may be wrong but
trends indicate that more and more people would like to host their own web
servers.....
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Derek Moore [SMTP:derekm at hackunix.org]
> Sent:	Friday, October 15, 1999 6:52 PM
> To:	'kclug at kclug.org'
> Subject:	RE: kclug - ADSL
> 
> > I'm hoping that market forces will eventually force companies to be more
> > creative ( i.e leaving "loopholes" to attract and retain customers ) and
> > less "clever" intentionally ........
> > What do you think ?
> 
> I don't mean to be arguementive or anything, but I really don't see that
> happening. Dynamic IPs have around for ages. Why would that change now?
> That and the DHCP protocol doesn't really contain any conventions for
> putting in place such "loopholes." It's either yes or no. But dynamic IPs
> aren't going to change. And I don't see many ISPs intentionally putting
> loopholes in the way their system assigns IP addresses, it would be an
> enormous security hole [ie: if you could hacked it so you kept your IP
> indefinately then it wouldn't be much harder to steal someones IP and et 
> cetera].
> 
> Besides. The commercial Internet market is driven by money. That's all
> they care about. Honestly. (I work for midwest's largest ISP, I know.
> *grin*) If they could make another buck selling static IPs then they
> certainly would make sure that you couldn't get that static IP without
> paying first.
> 
> That's my $0.09. I'm done now.
> 
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