[124930] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Wed Apr 7 17:10:35 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <68107E737FF84E2FB5409B1D516C022F@TAKA>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:06:54 -0700
To: "John Palmer \(NANOG Acct\)" <nanog2@adns.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
If you are an end-user type organization, the fee is only $100/year
for all your resources, IPv4 and IPv6 included. Is that really what
you would call significant?
Owen
On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:59 PM, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote:
> Yah, thats what we are thinking here. We'll probably stick with IP4 only.
>
> Sounds like ARIN has set a trap, so that virtually any contact with them
> will result in the ceding of legacy rights.
> We'll be sure to avoid any such contact.
> Thanks everyone for the info.
>
> John
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joe Greco" <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
> To: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> Cc: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 3:31 PM
> Subject: Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
>
>
>> It's not the initial assignment fee that's really an impediment, it's
>> moving from a model where the address space is free (or nearly so) to
>> a model where you're paying a significant annual fee for the space.
>> We'd be doing IPv6 here if not for the annual fee. As it stands, there
>> isn't that much reason to do IPv6, and a significant disincentive in the
>> form of the fees.
>> ... JG
>> --
>
>
