Cable modem users could get static IPs soon.

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/cablecos-lose-decision-before-crtc/143158
>
> This would be nice.  If this works out we would be able to have static
> IPs on cable modem service from teksavvy and such.  That would be nice.
>
>    

What would be nicer would be the ISPs getting in gear with IPv6.  
Instead of a stingy (soon to run out) single IPv4 address, you'd get a 
huge subnet (minimum 2^64 addresses, mine's 2^72).  Even if an ISP 
handed out single addresses, there'd still be no shortage, as their 
subnet would also be a minimum of 2^64 or 18446744073709551616 
addresses.  So they could give you as many as you wanted.

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