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Jem Berkes wrote:
> Static IPs cost little extra to set up, but help the Internet more easily
> self-regulate and block malicious traffic without having to resort to
> blocking the whole ISP.

When you consider support calls related to DHCP etc, static adresses probably
cost less to ISPs. However, when you consider that ISPs such as Bell,
Videotron etc, make their real money from business customers who must may
orders of magnitudes more to get service whose only difference is a fixed IP
and no blocked ports, then they are not about to start giving away those very
"expensive" features for free to residential customers. Those ISPs have to
find some way to differentiate the affordable residential service (with
limitations) from the very expensive business services (without those limitations).

Whether one has a fixed IP or not, the second the ISP notices that customer X
is infected and attempts to infect others, the ISP can simply disable service
to that customer, essentially forcing the customer to call, at which point he
can be told about his virus.

When you have a few million customers however, most of which running the virus
petri dish known as Windows, the problem becomes that of scaling your support
desk since whenever you have a new vuris circulating, you'll be disabling a
whole lot of your customers and will be spending a whole lot of time onthe
phone with each and every one of them.