[111316] in North American Network Operators' Group
IPv6 space (was: RE: Private use of non-RFC1918 IP space )
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Deepak Jain)
Tue Feb 3 18:10:36 2009
From: Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>, NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 18:09:46 -0500
In-Reply-To: <ACC4C723-F0A4-40BE-A8BA-A71D7A8782D7@ianai.net>
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=20
> Which is exactly what they should do - actually before that one would
> hope. This is not the "$200/hour chcklehead consultant"'s fault, that
> is the design.
>=20
> Don't you love the idea of using 18446744073709551616 IP addresses to
> number a point-to-point link?
>=20
Let's not ignore that all IPv6 allocations are basically charged-for, so
my expectation is that there will be fewer "idle" allocations that can't
be recovered running around (when an org has to justify $36,000 per year [a=
fter 2012],
forever, some bean counter may ask why... especially if they can get a
"sensibly" sized allocation from their provider for a fraction of that cost=
).
I'm not sure if that is cynical, or optimistic, but since the allocations
are not free, there seems to be less incentive to squat.
Deepak Jain
AiNET
