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Re: request for help w/ ATT and terminology

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Sat Jan 19 12:56:45 2008

Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 12:55:15 -0500
From: "William Herrin" <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
To: "Andy Davidson" <andy@nosignal.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <1C03B6E3-0489-4404-A75C-03CC4F97E090@nosignal.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Jan 19, 2008 11:48 AM, Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org> wrote:
> There's some debate in RIPE land right now that discusses, "what
> actually is the automatic, free, right to PI" ?   Every other network
> in the world pays the cost when someone single homes but wants their /
> 24 prefix on everyone else's router.  If one had to pay a registry
> for PI, then small networks would have to think about the negative
> externalities of their decision to deploy using PI.

Andy,

There was some related work on ARIN PPML last year. The rough numbers
suggested that the attributable economic cost of one IPv4 prefix in
the DFZ (whether PI, PA or TE) was then in the neighborhood of $8000
USD per year.

Regards,
Bill Herrin


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