[e2e] Free Internet & IPv6

[Daniel Havey]

It seems like IPv4 and 6 are all ready free.  Nobody (that I know of) sells an IP address.  It's just that access to the network requires physical equipment.  Physical equipment costs money and has bandwidth limitations.  Thus the ISPs charge money for access.

Free Internet access via Google or whomever, is not actually free.  It is just paid for by Google and offered at no charge.  So I would say no probably not.

...Daniel

--- On Tue, 9/18/12, Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Arjuna Sathiaseelan <arjuna.sathiaseelan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [e2e] Free Internet & IPv6
> To: end2end-interest at postel.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 18, 2012, 7:50 AM
> Dear All,
>   Hope this does not turn out into the Discrete IP
> battle thats going
> on here..But a quick question:
> 
> I was wondering if its possible to create an IP address
> system (IPv6)
> that is free for accessing (like the free phone numbers).
> All
> essential services such as health, education, government
> services
> could be moved on to the free IP address space and they can
> be
> accessed for free. So anyone, anywhere via any device can
> access these
> essentials even when they dont have a subscribed (paid)
> Internet
> connection..
> 
> Thoughts anyone? Peace be with all :)
> ---
> Regards
> Arjuna
> http://about.me/arjuna.sathiaseelan
>