[124949] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ARIN IP6 policy for those with legacy IP4 Space
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Temkin)
Wed Apr 7 19:27:24 2010
Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:26:51 -0700
From: Dave Temkin <davet1@gmail.com>
To: Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick@zill.net>
In-Reply-To: <4BBD10F6.9080409@zill.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> Joe Greco wrote:
>
>
>> 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
>>
>
>
> I have to agree ... why such high charges when a similar service like
> GoDaddy provides (domain name registrar) is $15 a year?
>
> Is it REALLY X times the level of difficulty of registering a domain
> name, and thus the charges are justified? I will let someone who is
> very technical explain this to me.
>
> Cordially
>
> Patrick
>
>
There are 117,351,239 domain names registered. If I had to guess, there
are less than 1% of that total number in IP assignments (not
allocations), but I don't have the patience to go compile those
statistics. GoDaddy exists based on volume, which we don't have the
same scale with IP assignments.
-Dave
